The Raymond Dennis Collection - 25th February 2014
Lot 59
A Worcester feather-moulded coffee cup c.1754-56
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £1200
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Description
A Worcester feather-moulded coffee cup c.1754-56, painted in the Kakiemon palette with the Banded Hedge pattern, a Ho-Ho bird in flight above colourful flowers, with further flowering branches to the inside rim, the handle elaborately moulded, 5.8cm.
Provenance: the Raymond Dennis Collection. Purchased from Phillips, The Watney Collection, Part III, 1st November 2000, lot 977.
Cf. Simon Spero Exhibition 2013, no.14 for an identical example from the Bunny and Paul Davies Collection.