A pair of Worcester blue-ground (gros bleu) two-handled chocolate cups, covers and stands, circa 1770, painted with panels of flowers within gilt lappet band borders, the saucers with blue fretted square marks, the cups with a fretted square mark and a crescent mark Provenance: Albert Amor Ltd., Exhibition of first period Worcester porcelain 1751-1784, London 1973 (one saucer with paper exhibition label.). Sold in these rooms ex-lot 91 28th March 2018. Condition Report: One cup has a 2cm long vertical crack from rim. Minute nibbles to floriform finials. One cover has a small 'tooth' of the dentil gilt rim rubbed off and has a barely noticeable shallow rim chip (couple of mm's), ditto one saucer. Generally very light wear to gilding of the leading edges of rims. Condition Report Disclaimer