Lot Details
Lot 121
Bristol Porcelain Coffee Cup and Saucer from the 'Colston Service'
Circa 1775, blue crossed lines mark
The cup of double-ogee form with angular scroll handle, each enameled in blue and gilt with a garland of forget-me-nots forming the initial `C' below a wreath, within gilt dentil rims.
Diameter of saucer 5 inches.
Provenance:
Dr. William P. Harbeson Collection (no. E.B. 3, paper label).
Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, New York, 4 April 1972, lot 95.
Exhibition Literature:
Bristol Porcelain Bicentenary Exhibition, 1770-1970, 4 May - 27 June 1970, p. 22.
F. Severne MacKenna, Champion's Bristol Porcelain, p. 63, records a pair of Colston service cups and saucers in the Alfred Trapnell Collection. These are illustrated on pl. xxiii of the corresponding Albert Amor collection catalogue.
C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell
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