Three Liverpool (Richard Chaffers) coffee cans, circa 1756-60 The smallest example with a plain rolled handle, well-painted in blue with the 'Two Men Bowing' pattern, a narrow hatched border below the interior rim, 5.4cm high, the two larger cans with grooved handles, painted with differing Chinese gardens, tall and strange plants by a fence, 6cm and 6.7cm high (3) Footnotes: Provenance With Roderick Jellicoe Lyn and Maurice Hillis Collection Literature Maurice Hillis, Liverpool Porcelain (2011), p.196, fig.5.126 (two smaller cans) and p.197, fig.5.129 (largest can) The smallest coffee can is delightfully thinly potted with a suitably diminutive roll handle. Hillis notes that the largest can, which has a gently spreading foot might be classed as a small mug and was not necessarily intended for coffee. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing