A Chamberlain Worcester Yellow-Ground Topographical Small Mug, Circa 1805
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February 1, 05:50 PM GMT
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1,000 - 1,500 USD
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A Chamberlain Worcester Yellow-Ground Topographical Small Mug, Circa 1805
painted with a monochrome west view of the City of Worcester, perhaps after the engraving by S. Sparrow, after James Ross, showing the River Severn before St. Peter's (now demolished), Glover's needle of St Andrews and Worcester Cathedral, gilt title WORCESTER, reserved on a yellow-ground, with a gilt foliate-scroll band reserving flowerhead medallions, gilt-rims, script mark in purple
height 3 1/8 in.
8 cm
Property from the Estate of Mary C. Early, Toronto, Canada, Sotheby's New York, 6 April 1988, lot 245
P. Broome, The Hyde Park Collection 1965-1990, Hong Kong 1989, p. 355, illustrated
Further pieces painted with this viewpoint of Worcester are illustrated in Geoffrey Godden, Chamberlain-Worcester Porcelain, 1788-1852, London 1982, pl. 270 320, 345, 366 and 407.
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