First Period Worcester Porcelain Fancy Birds Fluted Tea Cup c.1785

A pretty Worcester porcelain French style fluted teacup ornately decorated with an underglaze blue border around the rim with fine gilt over decoration and a gilt dentil rim inside and out. Finely painted on each side with scenes of "fancy birds", exotic pheasants set against a lush backdrop. A smaller bird in flight and tiny distance birds sit between the two main vignettes and well painted butterflies sit either side of the handle and inside the cup well. Gilt acanthus leaf detail runs up the handle and it is finished with a gilt band around the top of the foot. Painted crescent mark to the base, c.1785.