A Bristol coffee cup and saucer, from the Gainsborough Service

A Bristol coffee cup and saucer, from the Gainsborough Service, the cup with crabstock handle, painted in coloured enamels with sprays of flowers and leaves m within scrolling bands of laurel, flowers and leaves entwined with gilt bands, gilt dentil borders, circa 1772, no marks

Provenance: Sotheby's London, 14th February 1984, part lot 111

See Albert Amor, The Alfred Trapnell Collection, 1912, numbers 373-380, for further pieces from this service 

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