Sale 5355
London
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16 March 1995
Price realised
GBP 518
Estimate
A PAIR OF CHAMBERLAIN'S WORCESTER CRESTED SAUCER-DISHES, the centres painted with a crest, reserved on richly gilt apricot grounds, the borders gilt with bands of leaves and flowerheads within lozenges (one with rim chip, one with crack to base, gilding rubbed), pattern number 299, 7¾in. (19.5cm.) diam.; and another of smaller size (rim chips), 5½in. (14cm.) diam., circa 1800 (3)
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Cf. Geoffrey A. Godden, Chamberlain-Worcester Porcelain, 1788-1852, London, 1982, pl. 421 for a plate of this pattern
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