A Pinxton Bute-shaped teacup and saucer, painted with a frie...

Hammer

£350

A Pinxton Bute-shaped teacup and saucer, painted with a frieze of pink roses in hexagonal gilt reserves, each with sunburst spandrels, flanked by incurved panels, above demi-lune black paterae and swagged gilt festoons, the saucer 14.3cm diam, c.1800 For an identical teacup and saucer of the same pattern see: Gent, The Patterns and Shapes of the Pinxton China Factory 1796 - 1813, 1996, page 83, fig. 67.