Antique Black English Transferware Cup and Saucer Embossed Floral Border Rural England

Staffordshire Black Transfer Ware Teacup and SaucerCrown DucalGainsboroughRural EnglandHas a slight octagon shaped saucer with embossed florals and black transfer scrollwork framing the Knebworth House. The cup depicts Catesby's House on the inside and has embossed flowers around the cup and the same black scrollwork transfer around its rim. Stunning!Circa 1930'sKnebworth House: The home of the Lytton family since 1490 and was originally a genuine red-brick Late Gothic manor house, built round a central court as an open square. In 1813-16 the house was reduced to its west wing which was remodelled in a Tudor Gothic style by John Biagio Rebecca for Mrs Bulwer-Lytton and then was transformed in 1843-45 by Henry Edward Kendall, Jr. into the present Tudor Gothic structure. Its most famous resident was Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the Victorian author, dramatist and statesman, who embellished the gardens in a formal Italianate fashion. Much of the interior was redesigned by Sir Edwin Lutyens. In t