Period: Edwardian
Maker: Worcester Royal Porcelain Company Ltd. (‘Royal Worcester’)
A delightful Royal Worcester cup & saucer hand-painted with multi-coloured foxgloves (Digitalis), yew berries and wild purple gladiolus, on a soft ivory ground.
Bases of both cup and saucer bear the Royal Worcester backstamp with a date code of fifteen dots for 1906. There is also a painted pattern number, 9531, together with a ‘C’ and an impressed ‘8L.’
Condition Perfect mint condition, bar a couple of minuscule glaze scratches on the cup, visible only on close inspection.
Cup height 6.9 cm; diameter: 7.4 cm; width, with handle: 9.4 cm
Saucer diameter 13.5 cm
Net weight: 162 g
Medium: Bone china (porcelain)
Origin: Worcester, England