An early Bow coffee cup

An early Bow coffee cup, boldly enamelled with a large pink peony tailing off into a stem of bright blue and yellow blossom, partial brown 'G' mark to the base, c.1750-53, two faint hairline cracks, 8.5cm. Some collectors and historians relate the 'G' mark to painter John Gazeley, first mentioned at the factory in 1749. A similarly marked and decorated teabowl is in the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum.