The Helen Espir Collection - 12th November 2014
Lot 411
A Chinese porcelain English-decorated coffee cup and saucer 1st half 18th century
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £220
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Description
A Chinese porcelain English-decorated coffee cup and saucer 1st half 18th century, two other coffee cups and two teabowls, with various underglaze blue decoration of flowers, landscape scenes and a wide trefoil border, later-decorated with additional figures, deer, birds and flowers, and with enamel and gilt highlights to the existing decoration, beneath and around panels of black swirl, oeil de perdrix and black and gilt hatched grounds, 11.7cm max. (6)
Provenance: the Helen Espir Collection, nos. 715, 489, 692, 803 and 807.
Illustrated: ECC Transactions, Vol. 23, Helen Espir, London Decoration on Chinese Porcelain, p.34, pls.8 and 9.