A Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester armorial Teacup & Saucer c.1821

A Flight, Barr and Barr Worcester armorial Teacup and saucer c.1821. The cup raised on a pedestal foot, the broad blue borders with raised gold neoclassical design, reserved with the crest of Sophia, daughter of the Earl of Coventry and her husband Sir Roger Gresley, Baronet, with the motto 'melyore fyde quan fortuna', the rims and moulded handles also gilt, saucers 16cm diam,impressed crowned FBB marks, cup with script marks, saucers with circular printed marks.

Exhibited in the ECC Armorial Exhibition, 2008 (one cup and saucer). A single breakfast cup and saucer from this service was sold by Bonhams on 8 December 2008, lot 364. Charles Dawson illustrates another coffee cup and saucer and discusses the service in Worcester Flight & Barr Porcelain (2023), p.184. The Gresley motto is usually spelt meliore fide quam fortuna, 'with better fidelity than fortune'.

Roger Gresley was an English author and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1835 to 1837 as MP for South Derbyshire. He was a well known London dandy and gambled away much of his fortune!

Condition: Excellent