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Cup, tea and saucer
Hemispherical cup, with footring and C-scroll handle, painted with a male and female figure in the manner of Watteau and the French and Italian Comedy, seated in a wooded landscape. The man wears black shoes, white stockings and a puce doublet and breeches with ruffs at the neck and cuffs and a black plumed cap. The woman is dressed in a blue hooped skirt trimmed with red, a yellow bodice and white sleeves. Lip with worn gilt line and pendant trefoils.
The saucer is painted with standing male and female figure, trees behind. She wears a grey dress and yellow shoes. He is dressed in a brown coat, red waistcoat, and black feathered tricorn hat. Gilt line to the rim, with alternating pendent trefoils and dots.