Service · S024

Leinster

Cup · 1229

A rare Bristol ogee-shaped coffee cup from the Leinster service, with moulded loop handle, decorated in coloured flower heads with the intial L beneath a gilt ducal coronet, within oval gilt panels, the cup with two grisaille head and shoulder studies of young men, united by green and iron red laurel swags, gilt line, leaf scroll and dentil borders, circa 1775, blue painted X and numeral 3 in gilt.

Saucer · 1229.1

A rare Bristol ogee-shaped coffee saucer, from the Leinster service, decorated in coloured flower heads with the intial L beneath a gilt ducal coronet, within oval gilt panels, the cup with two grisaille head and shoulder studies of young men, united by green and iron red laurel swags, gilt line, leaf scroll and dentil borders, circa 1775, blue painted X and numeral 3 in gilt.