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Four Worcester coffee cups, two English porcelain coffee cups; two Chelsea-Derby coffee cups; a creamware coffee cup; a Bristol teabowl, two Newhall-type coffee cups and a New Hall-type teabowl VARIOUS DATES, MOSTLY CIRCA 1770-1800 AND LATER, WORCESTER BLUE CRESCENT MARKS AND IMITATION CHINESE SEAL MARKS, THE CUPS PAINTED IN THE WORCESTER STYLE LATE 19TH CENTURY WITH IMITATION CRESCENT AND CHINESE SEAL MARKS; THE CHELSEA-DERBY TEACUP WITH GILT CONJOINED ANCHOR AND D MARK; THE BRISTOL TEABOWL WITH BLUE CROSS AND IRON-RED 8 The first Worcester example painted and gilt with roses and other flowers reserved against a dark-blue scale ground; the second of fluted form painted with a bow covered in trailing flowers and an arrow similarly draped beneath gilt hanging pendants and a dark-blue border; the third Worcester teacup of fluted form, painted and gilt with flower-sprays and acorns among branches below a border of continous gilt-leaf and blue berry ornament; a coffee cup painted in the Worcester-style with crescent-shaped floral swags suspending gilt pendant ornament above a light-blue scale ground; a teacup painted with exotic birds and flowers among scrolling gilt cartouches reserved against a blue-scale ground; the Chelsea-Derby coffee cup painted with scattered flowers and swags of black husk ornament suspended from a gilt-line; a coffee cup similarly decorated; a Newhall-type teacup, the interior painted with a pink and purple border of scrolls reserved against a pink diaper-pattern ground; a creamware teacup printed in black with the 'Tea Party' pattern; a Bristol teabowl painted with a loose flower-spray and further scattered flowers; a New Hall-type coffee-cup painted with flower-sprays and sprigs in shades of grey and black below a gilt rim and wreath of leaves; a Newhall-type teabowl painted with scattered rose-sprays in shades of grey and black (12)