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Tea cup and saucer, hard-paste porcelain, tea cup standing on a foot rim, flared sides, slightly everted lip, C-scroll handle with scroll terminal; decorated opposite handle in red, green, purple, yellow and black enamels with two classical figures and one putto with wings, village on rock to right, within a gilt and brown, shaped cartouche with gilt and brown scrolling, panel inscribed `C.C.H.' centre, top, gilt border to foot rim and handle, spray of polychrome flowers to bottom, ornamental gilt border to inner lip. The saucer stands on a foot rim, spreading body, everted lip; decorated in centre with a figure of Europa carred off by the putto above, two putti either side, two figures to right, inscribed `Jupiter in Specie Tauri Europam avehit', bottom left, within a gilt and brown quatrelobe cartouche with gilt and brown scrolling, panel inscribed `C.C.H. / 1751', above, centre, ornamental gilt border to lip.