A PAIR OF CHAMBERLAIN'S WORCESTER PORCELAIN BLUE-GROUND VASES CIRCA 1820-30

each reserved on the front with a gilt foliate- and scroll-edged cartouche painted with a colorful cluster of flowers, raised on a circular foot and square base and affixed on either side with a gilt-heightened swan-form handle, Chamberlains Worcester mark in puce script. Some minor restoration. Together with five English silver-lustre two-handled goblets, 19th century; and a set of thirteen English earthenware green-ground lobed dessert plates, circa 1840, printed and painted with floral sprays and sprigs, red painted pattern number 4653. Some chips, cracks and discoloration. 20 pieces.

Vases: Both with some wear to the gilding on the upper edge of the rim, the handles, the shoulders, the striped upper half of the foot and the shells on the upper corners of the base; bot also with restored chips along the bottom edge of the blue-ground section of the vase, just above the striped section; one also with a ½-inch patch of gilding off the back of the base (from a sticker placed there). Both also with crackling to the glaze. The more crackled vase (with the tulip) with one handle's neck loop restored; a restored chip or chips on the rim at the other side; and the base with minuscule chips on the corners and corner edges and footrim (this is the base with the patch of gilding off), and the footrim at the back with a shallow 1/8-inch chip. The other also with one handle loop restored and the same sort of tiny chips along the edges and corners of the square base. Silver-lustre goblets: The widest goblet in good condition. The goblets with copper lustre interiors are in good condition apart from some minor occasional scratching. The other two (almost a pair) each with very minor scratching; one with a ¼-inch chip to one handle terminal; the other with the lower ½-inch of one terminal gone, the other terminal with a 2-mm. chip, and also with a lustred-over original 2-mm. chip on the outer edge of the rim. Plates: All with mostly very minor glaze crackling, causing discoloration, quite serious in the center of three, and two of those with chipping to the green enamel on the edge, and some of that chipping could be considered almost very shallow but tiny rim chips. Four others with chipping to the green enamel on the edge and one of those with a 3-mm very shallow chip on the edge at 9 o'clock. One with a 5/16-inch (8-mm.) chip on the upper edge at 11 o'clock. One with allover discoloration and a 4 3/8 x 2 ¾-inch (11.1 x 7-cm.) X-shaped star crack in the center, extending a little into the rim at 8 o'clock. The last with a shallow ½-inch (1.2-cm.) chip on the upper edge at 11 o'clock issuing a 4 1/8-inch hair crack into the center; and a 2-mm. chip on the rim at 11:30.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.

A similar vase is illustrated by Geoffrey A. Godden, Chamberlain-Worcester Porcelain, 1788-1852, p. 301, pl. 394.