Painted with branches of yellow and red flowering prunus and rockwork in Kakiemon taste, above a single red line. This is a rare pattern occurring on a small number of Worcester cups.
Height 6.2cm
An incised line within the footrim
Condition: 2 miniscule rim nicks, a 1cm Y-shaped crack to the base, some fade to green enamel.
For an example of a cup in this rare pattern, see Bonhams, The Watney Collection, Part 2, Lot 554.
Also a creamjug in the Billie Pain Collection, Bonhams, 26th November 2003, lot 117; and Simon Spero Exhibition 2001, Fig 27.
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