Pick of the week: Sleeper in Norfolk as Worcester 'Union Jack House’ cup is flagged up
A solitary English blue and white porcelain coffee cup emerged from the relative anonymity of a one-line catalogue description and a £120-180 estimate to sell for £4100 at Keys in Aylsham on July 24.
As the price suggested, this was something special.
By the mid 1750s the Worcester factory, based…