Coffee cup and saucer, bone china, staight-sided cup with a wide moulded basketweave band and ropetwist handle painted pink, saucer with similar moulding but slightly different colour painted details; base of cup, painted pattern number 7/2445 and print

Coffee cup and saucer, bone china, staight-sided cup with a wide moulded basketweave band and ropetwist handle painted pink, saucer with similar moulding but slightly different colour painted details; base of cup, painted pattern number 7/2445 and printed registered design mark with encoded date of 11th January 1876, underside of saucer, pattern number 7/2371 and impressed registered design mark with encoded date of 3rd April 1875, cup made by E J D Bodley, Hill Pottery, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 1876+, saucer made by Edward F Bodley and Co, Scotia Pottery, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 1875+
the cup and saucer, made by companies linked by family name are similar, but not a precise match, having registration dates separated by just over a year, and varying colour details; it is not known how or when they were united as a pair
Coffee cup and saucer, bone china, staight-sided cup with a wide moulded basketweave band and ropetwist handle painted pink, saucer with similar moulding but slightly different colour painted details; base of cup, painted pattern number 7/2445 and print