
18th Century Worcester Porcelain Coffee Cup with Smokey Primitive Print.
18th Century Worcester Porcelain Coffee Cup with Smokey Primitive Print. The cup with ridged ear-form handle, with rare and early transfer-printed "Smokey Primitive" of "The Fortune Teller." The print depicts a crone, the fortune teller, with a baby on her back; the baby is holding a pinwheel. To the left of this figural group stands a boy playing a toy trumpet, holding a stick, near docks in a pond. To the right side of the fortune teller, stands the genteel lady, whose fortune is to be told, her lady maid to her left, and a fine house in the background, with trees bracketting the figural work. Unmarked. Circa 1754. 2 5/8" H. Condition: Five 1/16th inch shallow chips and a nick to rim.; one nick to footrim. Three tiny divots to handle, left side, arch;. Glaze blow out 1/2" below lower left of print. There are two glaze blow outs to the cup interior. To the center, interior well, is a nipple of porcelain, not usually found on Worcester wares of this period. Provenance: Stocksprin