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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Brassey, post: 3689434, member: 15277&quot;]I spotted it advertised on Facebook as an English porcelain jug with Chinese decoration and thought that was odd.</p><p><br /></p><p>I could just make out a few letters from the obscured mark in the pics and after a while came up with Challinor </p><p><br /></p><p>I then Googled Challinor and famille rose and the V&amp;A piece turned up.</p><p><br /></p><p>From then I followed up the V&amp;A references and was fortunate to have a friend with a copy of the book mentioned .</p><p><br /></p><p>That’s about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The listing goes live soon . I think it’s a fabulous rarity but Bonhams didn’t think it exciting enough to put in their sale so maybe it won’t do that well. Will know in ten days.&nbsp; Almost tempted to keep it as it’s so unusual. </p><p>Not offering overseas shipping might reduce&nbsp; the price but it will be prohibitive[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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