Four Liverpool (Richard Chaffers) coffee cups, circa 1756-62 Of gently tapering profile, with grooved handles, one finely painted with a bird perched on bamboo, another with the 'Wire Fence' pattern, the third with peony and a willow tree sprouting from large rocks and the fourth with stylised trailing flowers below a diaper border, 6-6.4cm high Footnotes: Provenance Watney Collection, Phillips, 1 November 2000, lot 1022 (two cups - left in photo) Lyn and Maurice Hillis Collection Literature Bernard Watney, Liverpool Porcelain (1997), p.130, col.pl.10c (bird on bamboo cup) Maurice Hillis, Liverpool Porcelain (2011), p.198, fig.5.135 (bird on bamboo cup) The so-called 'Wire Fence' pattern also appears on a coffee cup in the Hillis Collection, sold by Bonhams on 12 February 2026, lot 144. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing