Derby Coffee Cup pattern 121

A fine Duesbury Derby cup pattern number 121.  An early number should place it at the beginning of the 1784 Derby period when pieces were marked with the crown and cross batons and the pattern number.  

This cup is marked and numbered but its hard to see and photograph, you have to get the light bounding off the glaze.  Its a faint puce mark.

A lovely restrained Georgian pattern on a fine body with 16 facets.  Top quality gilding to the handle and a band of gilding around the foot, and dentil gilding around the rim.  A dark blue onglaze line below the rim and a gilded pattern below that.  A gilded bunch of flowers in the bowl of the cup, which shows some wear otherwise over all in excellent condition.

Makers marks:
Faint puce Derby mark with cross baton and pattern number 121

Dimensions:
69 mm diameter at the rim, height 71 mm

Weight:
94 g

Age:
235 years

Condition:
Excellent.  Virtually no wear to the gilding which is rare with 18th century pieces.  A few small black inclusions in the glaze from firing and one on the inside of the bowl see the pictures, but in really excellent condition.  The Derby mark and the pattern number on the bottom are very faint but can be see in good light. 

Maker:
Derby