Six Cozzi cups and saucers and six custard cups and covers circa 1765 -1775

including one in iron-red and gilding with a crowned rampant lion, perhaps intended for a member of the Barberono family, one with fruits below a gilt trellis and puce scalework border, one with figures outside pavillions (cup with chip to rim), two with radiating green, purple, yellow and brown lines

The cup with the Chinese figures has a shallow chip to the rim, approx 1/2" by 1/4". The remaining cups and saucers in overall good condition with minor wear. Custard cups - the knap of the cover on one example with the gilt twin-headed eagle has been re-stuck. Both the spiral moulded custard cups have some brown staining.
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(the first) Arthur Lane, Italian Porcelain, p. 18 and pl. 20(c) illustrates a plate of this 'Barbarono' service and notes that "... the gilding, for which Venetian sequin coins were used, is very good