18th Century Worcester Blue Scale Cups and Saucers
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Two fine first period Worcester blue scale cups and saucers, circa 1770. Provenance: tea cup and saucer from Jupiter Antiques, E. Sussex, 1993 for £460, a bute tea cup and saucer and a large shaped breakfast cup and saucer bowl both beautifully decorated with polychrome 'Fancy birds' and insects to shaped reserves edged with intricate gilt scrolls and embellishments, insects to central roundels and a tiny bug to the bute cup, square marks underside, height 4.5 cm, diameter 14.5 cm, (saucer) and smaller height 7 cm, (cup) and smaller
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- Polychrome - Made or finished in many colours. For furniture, it is used to indicated a painted finish.
- Circa - A Latin term meaning 'about', often used in the antique trade to give an approximate date for the piece, usually considered to be five years on either side of the circa year. Thus, circa 1900 means the piece was made about 1900, probably between 1895 and 1905. The expression is sometimes abbreviated to c.1900.
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