An early Worcester coffee cup

A Worcester coffee cup, of 'u' shape, the 'C' scroll handle with scroll thumb piece, painted in Japanese Kakiemon style with flowering prunus issuing from 'banded hedges', and a bird in flight, 2 1/2" high, circa 1752-53, no mark

Provenance; Gwen and Ronald McKnight Melvin Collection
                     Simon Spero Exhibition,2007,number 28

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