An important porcelain cup and saucer from Admiral Lord Nelson’s ‘Baltic

Both pieces are delicately painted in underglaze blues and greens with over glaze hand gilding. Each has a border of oak leaves and gilded acorns, a central fouled anchor within a victor’s laurel wreath and gilt borders. The gilt inscriptions state ‘Nelson 2nd April Baltic’, ’15th Febry‘, ‘San Joseph’, and ‘Glorious 1st August’. The saucer has two additional oak leaf reserves with banderols inscribed ‘Nelson San Joseph’ and ‘Nelson Aboukir’. Circa 1802.

Estimate:£4,400

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