Do Worcester cups usually come with a saucer?

Yes, in most cases. The majority of titles on Sellingantiques name a saucer, with a further handful listed as saucers for pairs and sets. Singles do turn up, most often a coffee cup or a can on its own. Those sit at the lower end of the range.

What is First Period Worcester?

It is the earliest Worcester porcelain, c.1751-1783, and the term is used interchangeably with Dr Wall in listing titles. It is the largest single labelled group in the archive, about a third of it, and the typical piece is a coffee cup or tea cup and saucer dated c.1765 to c.1785.

Which patterns turn up on early Worcester cups?

Pattern names are unusually specific in this category. Blue Scale, Fisherman, Kempthorne, Queen's, Dalhousie and Hop Trellis all appear in titles. So do Compagnie des Indes, Two Quail, Staghunt, Old Mosaic, Candle Fence, Dragon in Compartments and Waiting Chinaman. Scarlet Japan covers the boldly coloured Japanese-derived designs.

How old are Royal Worcester fruit-painted cups?

The fruit-painted and artist-signed cups in the archive run from the 1900s to the 1960s, and the decade buckets are busiest in the 1910s and 1930s. Many titles quote a factory year mark, with 1876, 1899, 1907, 1916, 1919 and 1925 among those recorded. The latest pieces on Sellingantiques are 1960s fruit-painted cups and saucers.

What does Flight, Barr and Barr mean?

It covers the Worcester firm's trading names between roughly 1790 and 1840. Titles here use Flight Period, Barr Period, Barr Flight & Barr and Flight Barr & Barr. The sampled pieces date c.1790 to c.1815, and they include cabinet cups with cover and stand at the top of the range.

Are miniature Worcester cups common?

They are a persistent thread rather than a large group, and the word miniature recurs through the titles. The forms include miniature coffee cans, cups and saucers, loving cups and a tyg dated 1909. Odd forms like these turn up singly rather than in runs.

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Small porcelain cups made at Worcester for tea, coffee and chocolate, from the factory's earliest years in the 1750s through to painted Royal Worcester pieces of the twentieth century.