A CHAMBERLAIN'S WORCESTER FLARED TUMBLER painted with a scene entitled CONTEMPLATION showing two seated figures, one gazing at a dead bird on her lap, the other writing in a book, within a gilt band octagonal cartouche, the reverse with gilt diamond-pattern heightened in iron-red beneath a band of stylised foliage scrolls flanking a sunburst, the rim gilt, gilt script mark, circa 1800
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A CHAMBERLAIN'S WORCESTER FLARED TUMBLER painted with a scene entitled CONTEMPLATION showing two seated figures, one gazing at a dead bird on her lap, the other writing in a book, within a gilt band octagonal cartouche, the reverse with gilt diamond-pattern heightened in iron-red beneath a band of stylised foliage scrolls flanking a sunburst, the rim gilt, gilt script mark, circa 1800
11cm. high
Lot Essay
For further tumblers of this type see Geoffrey A. Godden, Chamberlain-Worcester Porcelain 1788-1852, p.176, pl. 220 and p. 291, pl. 377