A rare Worcester tea cup and saucer

A rare Worcester tea cup and saucer, the cup with loop handle, painted in coloured enamels with exotic birds in branches, within gilt 'C' scroll cartouches, and with smaller panels of butterflies and other insects, on a yellow scale ground, gilt line borders, circa 1768-70, blue crossed swords and numeral 9 marks

Provenance; Crane Collection 
                     John Bell Collection

Yellow scale grounds were produced at Worcester for a short period from circa 1768-70, and are extremely rare 

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