A Chelsea Derby coffee cup

A Chelsea Derby coffee cup, with angular loop handle, painted en grisaille with two male profiles, within brown ground oval medallions and laurel swags, about a spiral fluted band, picked out in blue and gilt, the blue ground rim decorated in gilt with flower heads and leaves, the interior painted with a pink rose, 2 1/2" high,  orca 1775, no mark

Provenance; English Private Collection 

See Stephen Mitchell, The Marks on Chelsea-Derby, plate 44, for a coffee cup and saucer in this pattern 

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