Attributed to Richard Chaffer, Liverpool, c.1760

A porcelain bowl transfer printed in black enamel with scenes of Cape Breton, Senegal and Guadeloupe

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Attributed to Richard Chaffer, Liverpool, c.1760
A porcelain bowl transfer printed in black enamel with scenes of Cape Breton, Senegal and Guadeloupe

7 3/8in. (18.7cm.) diameter

Literature

P.D. Gordon Pugh, Naval Ceramics, Newport, 1971, p.12, and plate 31 (B) (another bowl in the V&A illustrated –‘Porcelain punch-bowl printed in black with three sea-fights, probably by J. Sadler, Liverpool.’)

Exhibited

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, A Pageant of Canada, Pages d’histoire du Canada, 1967, no.83, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue p.129. The exhibition, curated by Roy Strong (Director, National Portrait Gallery, London) celebrated the Centenary of Confederation.

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Lot Essay

The bowl, previously described as Royal Worcester, celebrates the British victories over the French during the Seven Years’ War at Fort Louis (Senegal) and Louisburg (Cape Breton) in 1758, and at Guadeloupe (West Indies) in 1759. Another example, cracked, is in the Victoria & Albert Museum (C.308-1951)

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