A Flight, Barr and Barr Worcester breakfast cup and saucer

A Flight, Barr and Barr Worcester breakfast cup and saucer, finely painted with the crest of the Baronetcy of Gresley of Drakelow, within a garter cartouche, with motto 'Melyore fyde Quam Fortuna', surmounted by a lion, the blue ground border with a fine raised paste gilt stiff leaf and anthemion band, gilt line borders, circa 1808, impressed and printed marks 'Manufacturers to Their Majesties and The Prince Regent'
Provenance: Coldwell Collection
                      The Collection of a Gentleman 

See Henry Sandon, Flight and Barr Worcester Porcelain, 1783-1840, page 19, for a breakfast saucer made for the Prince of Wales, with exactly this cartouche and border 

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