Reference Piece – Flight, Barr and Barr – Worcester – Bat printed and gilded porcelain. Thickly cast soft paste porcelain. The cup handle is a florrid variiant of the Classic angular London Style. The deep saucer shows the pece to be early nineteenth century – as does the style of the transfer [...]
Reference piece – Early 19th Century Spode Cup and Saucer, Blue and White [...]
Coffee Cups (aka Coffee Cans)
Chinese porcelain has been made for centuries and, in Europe, small chinese teabowls have been been used as receptacles for pouring tea, since tea was first imported from China – frequently carried with other porcelain in the tea-leaf filled chests that lined every China trading ship’s hold – acting as resaleable ballast. Served correctly, hot tea [...]
