English & European Ceramics & Glass - 15 Dec 2020

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Six Doccia coffee cups and saucers c.1770-80

£200 - £300 £550

Six Doccia coffee cups and saucers c.1770-80, decorated in iron red and gilt with cockerels or galli rossi fighting beneath tall fringed trees, some damages, 12.8cm. (12)

Provenance: a private collection in Sussex.

The first record of the use of this Chinese-inspired decoration is in 1747 and refers to cockerels painted in black. However, the same design was also executed in green, red and blue usually with gilt highlights.

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