A CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL COFFEE CUP AND SAUCER circa 1730

painted on the front or in the center with the arms of Grantham within a gilt roundel amidst green bamboo shoots within a rose and gilt Y-diapered ruyi-lappet border decorated with rose and green peony sprigs.  The saucer with a tiny chip.

The Cecil H. Bullivant Collection, Minehead, Somerset, sold, Phillips, London, March 22, 1988, lot 160 (19 pieces from this service)
Heirloom & Howard Limited, London

Cup 1with 1 mm frit on rim edge, saucer with tiny 2mm chip on outer edge at 11 o'clock marking edge of sprayed area probably concealing haircrack.
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The covered milk jug from this tea and coffee service is illustrated by Howard 1974, p. 253, no. E12.  The teapot from the aforementioned part tea service in the Bullivant Collection was sold in these rooms on January 23, 1992, lot 425.