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Vintage Wedgwood Hand-Painted Bone China Coffee Can Demitasse Pair – Regency Acanthus, Cosmos & Forget-Me-Nots, WH1047C, England 1960s

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A matched pair of Wedgwood hand-painted bone china demitasse cups and saucers, pattern WH 1047 C — the firm's hand-painted WH series, where each piece was painted by a Wedgwood artist rather than transfer-printed, and signed off with the Wedgwood Hand-painted pattern code. The form is the classic Regency coffee can: two straight-sided cylindrical cups with simple looped handles, each on its own scalloped saucer. The decoration runs the Regency vocabulary the firm reproduced through the mid-twentieth century — broad bright-green acanthus leaves wrapping the cup body, scattered with deep-pink four-petal cosmos blossoms, periwinkle-blue forget-me-not stars, and fine black squiggled stems threading the white ground between them. The rim and handle carry a 22K gilt line.

The hand-painted character is visible in the small differences between the two cups — the brushstrokes are not identical, the leaf veins fall a little differently, and the painted shadow on each cosmos blossom catches the light at a slightly different angle. That is the signature of true hand-painting, and the reason Wedgwood maintained the WH-series alongside their much larger transfer-print output for decades.

Wedgwood is best known for jasperware and creamware, but the firm's bone china hand-painted line — running through the 1930s–70s — is a quiet specialty within Wedgwood collecting. The WH-prefix patterns were never high-volume; small runs of hand-painted pieces from individual painters at the works, identified by pattern code rather than series name. The Portland-vase stamp + MADE IN ENGLAND + hand-inked WH 1047 C on the base confirms maker, line, and pattern in one mark.
The coffee can — a straight cylindrical cup made for after-dinner coffee — is the cup shape Regency drawing rooms used in the 1810s–30s, and the form English china makers reproduced through the mid-twentieth century when the Regency revival came back. Hand-painted Wedgwood demitasse pairs in this exact register are notably harder to find than the maker's transfer-printed or jasperware production.

• Type: Hand-Painted Coffee Can Demitasse Pair (2 cups + 2 saucers)
• Maker: Wedgwood, Stoke-on-Trent, England
• Line: Bone China Hand-Painted (WH series)
• Pattern Number: WH 1047 C (hand-inked in red on base)
• Era: Circa 1950s–1970s
• Style: Regency revival — hand-painted acanthus leaves + cosmos + forget-me-nots
• Shape: Straight-sided coffee can cup with looped handle, scalloped saucer
• Size: Cups ~2.25" / 5.5 cm dia × 2.5" / 6.5 cm tall; Saucers ~4.5" / 11.5 cm dia
• Material: Fine Bone China
• Decoration: Hand-painted polychrome enamels (green acanthus, pink cosmos, blue forget-me-nots, black stems); 22K gilt rim and handle trim
• Markings: Green/gold Wedgwood Portland-vase stamp + MADE IN ENGLAND + hand-inked red WH 1047 C pattern number on base of each piece

Condition
Very good vintage condition for both sets. Hand-painted decoration crisp and fully present on all four pieces; bone china clean inside the cups; gilt rims bright with minor age-consistent wear visible only on close inspection. No chips, cracks, hairlines, or repairs. Sold as a matched pair of 2 cups + 2 saucers (four pieces). Please review all photos as part of the condition record.

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