Offered here for your consideration is a fine antique 18th Century English porcelain cup & saucer.

By Chelsea-Derby, the Chelsea porcelain manufacturer that was operated by Derby from 1769 - 1784.


With green painted floral motifs throughout both cup & saucer. There are gilt highlights to the cup's rim and base, the saucer's rim, and the painted flowers.

Marked to the base with a gilt Chelsea-Derby maker's mark.

Simply a great early English porcelain cup and saucer!

Date: Late 18th Century


Overall Condition:

It is in overall fair, as-pictured, used estate condition.

Condition Details:

The cup's rim retains almost none of its gilding, and there is rubbing to the the cup's handle & footrim. There is some staing at the base of the cup as well as to it's foot, and there a chip to the the cup's foot a chip. The saucer's rim is sligthly misshapen and has a kiln mark or blemish in the same area and rubbing to its gilding. Otherwise, there is wear to the enamel decoration on both peices, fine & light surface scratches throughout, and other signs of expected light wear consistent with age.

Maker:

Chelsea-Derby

Marks:

Marked to the base with a gilt Chelsea-Derby maker's mark.

Measurements:

Cup:
Height: ca. 2 1/2 in.
Width: ca. 3 1/4 in.
Depth: ca. 2 1/2 in.

Saucer:
Diameter: ca. 5 in.
Height: ca. 1 in.


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