A Chamberlain's Worcester crested part dinner service

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A Chamberlain's Worcester crested part dinner service
painted with the crest of a blackamoor within a gilt circular panel below gilt pendant swags, the salmon-pink ground painted in gilt and shaded in iron-red with a graduating diamond pattern field, within a border of paterae and scrolling foliage, comprising: a lobed oval tureen, cover and liner with white and gilt shell and scroll-moulded handles, and two plates, gilt script marks, circa 1802 (finial broken and restuck, minor chips and wear to gilt) -- the tureen 35cm. wide
See colour plate 9 (3)

Provenance

Anonymous Sotheby's London, 14 May 1974, part lot 131.

Literature

Geoffrey A. Godden, Chamberlain Worcester Porcelain 1788-1852 (1982), p.90, pl.96.

Lot Essay

The crest is that of Michael Newton.

This service is recorded at the Dyson Perrins Museum at Worcester in the Chamberlain Sale Register Book 70, p.199.

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