Stylish dark green 15-piece harlequin coffee set made in the 1940s / early 1950s with coffee pot, creamer, sugar basin and six expresso cups and saucers.
The creamer and sugar basin are incised 'Picton Hopkins, the other pieces are unmarked.
Coffee pot 16 cm high, creamer 10.5 cm high, sugar basin 7 cm high and 9 cm in diameter, cups 5 cm high and 7.2 cm in diameter, saucers 12 cm in diameter.
There is a piece missing from the underside of the coffee pot lid, the interior of the yellow cup is crazed and the slipcast seam shows slightly on the tip of the pourer; otherwise in very good condition with no chips, cracks or crazing.
Provenance: eBay, 2007.