A rare Worcester coffee cup

A rare Worcester coffee cup, with notched loop handle, printed in black by Robert Hancock with 'Battledore and Shuttlecock', the reverse with 'Blind Man's Buff, the interior with a black line rim, 2 1/2" high, circa 1775-78, no mark

Provenance; Norman Stretton Collection, his sale Phillips London, 21st February 2001, lot 68

Illustrated; ECC Transactions, volume 12, part 1, plate 30b

A similar cup is in the Victoria and Albert Museum 

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