English & European Ceramics & Glass - 8th October 2013

Lot 476

A Chamberlain's Worcester 'Grace' mug c.1810

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £220

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Description

A Chamberlain's Worcester 'Grace' mug c.1810, of large size and exceptional quality, finely painted with a dead game bird reserved on a gilt and blue marbled ground beneath a band of grapevine, a Derby porter mug painted with a titled view 'On the Lake Albans, Italy', and an unusual English porter mug decorated in the Imari palette with vignettes of pagodas on a red swirl ground, damages, 17cm max.

Cf. Geoffrey Godden, Chamberlain Worcester Porcelain 1788-1852, pp.262-263 for near identical mugs.