PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK COLLECTION (LOTS 119-164)

A CHAMBERLAIN'S WORCESTER DARK SALMON-GROUND ARMORIAL PART DINNER AND DESSERT SERVICE

1796-1800, GILT OR PURPLE SCRIPT CHAMBERLAIN'S WORCESTER MARK TO THE PLATES, INCISED MODELLER'S T MARK TO SEVERAL SERVING PIECES POSSIBLY FOR JOHN TOULOUSE SENIOR

Details

A CHAMBERLAIN'S WORCESTER DARK SALMON-GROUND ARMORIAL PART DINNER AND DESSERT SERVICE
1796-1800, gilt or purple script Chamberlain's Worcester mark to the plates, incised modeller's T mark to several serving pieces possibly for John Toulouse Senior
Enameled in colors with the arms of Everett of Biddesdon House, Wiltshire impaling those of another beneath the crest of the head of a wyvern supported on a collar and gilt striped baton reserved within a gilt scalloped medallion, the wide dark salmon border gilt with lozenges forming a trellis within a band of gilt paterae alternating with foliate scrolls similar to those on the following lot, comprising:
Two ice pails, covers and liners, 12 in. (30.5 cm.) high overall
Two sauce tureens, covers and stands, 8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) long overall, the stands
Two square dishes, 8¼ in. (21 cm.) wide
Two lozenge-shaped dishes, 11 5/8 in. (29.5 cm.) long
Two shell-shaped dishes, 8 in. (20.3 cm.) wide
Two kidney-shaped dishes, 10 1/8 in. (25.8 cm.) wide
Seventeen dessert plates, 8 5/8 in. (21.8 cm.) diam. (37)

Literature

Geoffrey A. Godden, Chamberlain-Worcester Porcelain 1788-1852, London, 1982, p. 87, fig. 91.

Lot Essay

The arms are likely those of Everett of Boddesdon House, Lugershall, Wiltshire impaling those of Ellis, the service having been commissioned in 1805 in honor of the marriage of William Everett to Mary Ellis. See Henry Sandon, Flight and Barr Worcester Porcelain 1783-1840, 1978, p. 213, no. 44.

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