A fine and large Chamberlain's Worcester charger c.1840

A fine and large Chamberlain's Worcester charger c.1840, the well finely painted with an arrangement of flowers including iris, auricula, rose and tulip, the shaped border with panels of flowers within raised gilt designs reserved on a blue ground, iron red and impressed marks, a short riveted crack to the footrim, 41cm.

Cf. Geoffrey Godden, Chamberlain-Worcester Porcelain 1788-1852, pl.195 for a near identical dish. That dish, and this, reputedly from a service presented to the Grand Duchess of Hesse by Queen Victoria.