Ridgway Porcelain Tea Cup & Saucer Pattern 2/1070 c.1820

A fine porcelain tea cup and saucer by John & William Ridgway, c.1820, with a rich mazarine blue ground reserving four shell type shapes and a central circle with scalloped edge. The latter very finely painted in enamels with a bouquet of garden flowers on a gilt pedestal. The shells are also painted in buff and pale blue enamel and over gilded with detailing. A flowing gilt design of trailing vines run across the blue ground and a further gilt frieze runs inside the rim of the cup. Finished with gilt bands around the rims and handle. Both pieces marked with the pattern number 2/1070 in red Enamel.