A few examples of appraisal values for
COFFEE CUPS PURPLE

• A TWELVE PIECE HEREND PARCEL GILT
  A TWELVE PIECE HEREND PARCEL GILT AND POLYCROME PAINTED...A TWELVE PIECE HEREND PARCEL GILT AND POLYCROME PAINTED "QUEEN VICTORIA" COFFEE SET, MARKED, 20TH CENTURY, a service for eight, each piece with gilt highlights and basket weave modeled banding, decorated with fluttering butterflies amidst blossoming leafy stems, verso centering overglaze blue arched "HEREND HUNGARY," above an armorial shield and crossed paint brushes over "HANDPAINTED," and various hand painted overglaze pattern/style numbers and letters, impressed "HEREND" with incised modelers and painters numbers/initials, comprising one coffee pot with domed lid centering a pink floral bloom finial; a sugar bowl with domed lid centering a purple tipped flower bud finial; a cream pitcher; eight waved rim trembleuse coffee cups with eight trembleuse pierced saucer stands; and a shaped oval tray with purple bow ribbon modeled and painted handles, length: 16". Condition: Some gilding wear, and a few with small utensil surface scratches. Simpson Galleries strongly encourages in-person inspection of items by the bidder. Statements by Simpson Galleries regarding the condition of objects are for guidance only and should not be relied upon as statements of fact and do not constitute a representation, warranty, or assumption of liability by Simpson Galleries. All lots offered are sold "AS IS.”
• GERMAN GOTHA THURINGIA PORCELAIN
  GERMAN GOTHA THURINGIA PORCELAIN TEA SERVICE, 25 PCS.German porcelain tea service with Indian purple decoration, 25 total pieces, Gotha Porcelain Factory, Thuringia. All with reeded bodies, monochrome Indian purple hand-painted decoration depicting Italianate ruins, most pieces marked with hand-painted "R" in purple on base, several pieces with purple crossed-sticks mark. Set consists of a teapot, coffee pot, creamer, covered sugar bowl, 11 saucers, 4 coffee cups and 6 tea cups. Ranging in size from 1 3/4" H to 11" H. 18th century. Condition: Coffee pot with chip to base. Tea pot lid shows evidence of restoration.
• PARIS PORCELAIN EMPIRE DECORATED
  PARIS PORCELAIN EMPIRE DECORATED PART COFFEE SERVICE, LATE 19TH CENTURYPARIS PORCELAIN EMPIRE DECORATED PART COFFEE SERVICE, LATE 19TH CENTURY, including a coffee pot, vasiform sugar urn with cover, a milk jug, a bowl, dia: 8 in.; and 6 demitasse cups with 7 saucer dishes, each piece decorated in a band of alternating pink and purple geometric forms with trailing gilt foliage and more bands of gilt flowers and vines, gilt highlights (17) Provenance: Estate of Mrs. Orme Wilson, The Tuleyries, Boyce, Virginia
• A group of English porcelain
  A group of English porcelain teawares, circa 1800-20, comprising two Imari pattern teacups and a saucer, an Imari pattern coffee can and saucer decorated with mons, a Spode coffee cup and a coffee cup and saucer decorated with fruiting vine, a Spode trio decorated in the Imari pattern with chinoiserie flowers and purple chrysanthemums, and a Derby Imari pattern kidney-shaped dish, red marks
• A group of Derby teawares, circa
  A group of Derby teawares, circa 1770, comprising a fluted teapot and cover, two coffee cups and a saucer, a trio, a saucer dish and two plates, purple painted marks
• A FINE DERBY COFFEE CUP painted
  A FINE DERBY COFFEE CUP painted with swags of blue flowers hanging from purple ribbons framed by gilt drapery and on a ground of diminishing gilt florets, 7cm h, puce painted mark, c1795, a Derby tea bowl, pattern 395, enamelled in bright green, puce and gilt with sprigs beneath a conforming ribbon border in dentil rim, puce painted mark, c1800 and four other Derby tea or coffee cups and a tea bowl, painted or printed marks, c1795-1825 (7)
• (80) ROYAL CROWN DERBY 'PURPLE
  (80) ROYAL CROWN DERBY 'PURPLE SCROLL' SERVICE(lot of 80) English bone china coffee and chocolate partial service, Royal Crown Derby, in the "Purple Scroll" pattern, retailed at Neiman Marcus, including: (2) bread and butter plates, approx 6.25"diam; (18) saucers, (one) with chip under rim, approx 5 7/8"diam; (18) saucers, approx 4 7/8"diam; (8) small saucers/ bowls, approx 4.5'diam; (16) flat demitasse cups, with scalloped rim, (one) with star fracture, approx 2.5"h, 2.5"diam; (8) flat demitasse cups, approx 2.5"h, 2.5"diam; (10) footed cups, approx 2.25"h, 3.75"diam; 16.5lbs total
• A SAMPSON HANCOCK DESSERT DISH
  A SAMPSON HANCOCK DESSERT DISH AND A SMALL GROUP OF TEAWARE the shell shaped dish painted by W E Mosley, signed with initials, with a group of flowers and fruit with insects in gilt border, 22cm w, the teaware comprising two apple green ground tea cups and saucers of London shape, painted with a panel of passion flowers, a saucer, painted with roses by J Wencker, signed, a coffee can painted with swags of roses, a coffee can and stand painted in purple monochrome and gilt and a cobalt ground side plate, red painted marks, plate also with the rare moon and Zeppelin mark and a pair of white opaque glass plaques painted with fruit by W Rayworth, signed, all late 19th/early 20th c (12) Exhibited: Derby Museum and Art Gallery, The Factory at King Street 1849-1935, 1993, Catalogue nos 17 and 26. Illustrated: Blackwood (R) and C Head, Old Crown Derby China Works The King Street Factory 1849-1935, 2003, p144, p191 and p344.