A very rare 18th century Chelsea porcelain coffee cup from The MacKenna Collection.

 

Of bucket shape with a loop handle, painted in green camaieu with a European landscape with a gnarled trunk in the foreground, a central thatched building with chimneys and a bare cross behind, and beyond that a small town with a church, possible ruins with trees scattered throughout, the interior with a smaller vignette of a three rural buildings behind trees and a stream, all below a gilt dentil rim

 

Height 6 cm
Diameter 7.3 cm

 

No mark

 

Circa 1762 - 1765

 

Chelsea Porcelain - The Gold Anchor Wares by P. Severne MacKenna
Plate 1 Fig 1 - Cup and saucer, green landscape - Mr F Brayshaw Gilhespy
The landscape possibly sourced from a drawing and woodcut by Domenico Campagnola and possibly executed by Irish artist Jefferyes H. O'Neale (1734-1801)