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First Period Worcester Porcelain Blue Scale & Fancy Bird Tea Cup c.1770
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Certified DealerApproved listing1114 sales by dealerFree Delivery
Description
A good Worcester porcelain tea cup with blue scale ground with "mirror and vase" reserves painted in bright enamels with exotic fancy birds and various butterflies and bugs and further bug inside the base. All reserves framed with gilt, silt rim and graduated stripes down the handle. Blue fretted square mark to the base, c.1770.
measurements
It measures 8.2cm (3 3/16") rim to rim, 4.8cm (1 7/8") high and 10.2cm (4") rim to handle.
measurements
declaration
The Fancy Fox has clarified that the First Period Worcester Porcelain Blue Scale & Fancy Bird Tea Cup c.1770 (LA433953) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being c.1770
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condition
condition
In very good condition, a short tight hairline to the rim only visible on the inside (please see the final photographs) but no other damage, repair or restoration. The gilt on the rim is rubbed but minimal surface wear otherwise.