A rare and early Derby Famille Verte bell-shaped coffee cup ...

Hammer

£350

A rare and early Derby Famille Verte bell-shaped coffee cup and saucer, painted in the Chinese Kangxi manner in tones of green, red and blue enamels with petal-shaped reserves of stiff foliage, the reserves outlined in red pencilling, shaped interior rim with a diaper band, pierced ear-shaped handle, the cup 7.4cm high, the saucer 12.6cm diam, c.1758 For an identical coffee cup see: Twitchett, Derby Porcelain 1748-1848: An Illustrated Guide, 2002, Appendix II: Cup Shapes by Bernard and Nancy Wilson, page 270, fig. 4. Provenance: the T. Grant Dixon Collection, labelled and erroneously attributed to Worcester, c. 1755, Cat. No. 79; the Wilders Collection, labelled.