This coffee cup is decorated with an underglaze blue printed design of a mock Chinese landscape in the popular 'Nankeen' style. This type of decoration had been used by Caughley in the last decades of the preceeding century.

John Rose purchased the 'Royal Salopian Porcelain Manufactory' at Caughley in 1799, and wares produced here demonstrate a range of typical Caughley patterns and forms.

This thickly-potted cup would have been manufactured at John Rose's Coalport works, and typical of early Coalport it is unmarked. The blue is lighter and brighter than that characterised by earlier Caughley blue and white wares.

Condition: Very Good - no chips, cracks or restoration. The print is an excellent example, although there is some faint crazing to the glaze, a result of the manufacturing process and entirely typical of Coalport porcelain from this early period.

Dimensions: Height 2 5/16" (5.9cm)

Geoffrey A. Godden, English Blue and White Porcelain, (Antique Collectors' Club, 2004).