14th Mar, 2024 10:30
Spring Specialist Sale
Chamberlain's Worcester dish - Millport Garrison
Chamberlain’s Worcester comport, dodecagonal top gilded with foliate scrolls on a claret ground enclosing central reserve painted with figures before a gothic building, the base with red painted inscription ‘The Garrison, Millport, August 22nd 1845, Chamberlain, Worcester’, raised on conforming foot, 27cm diameter
The Garrison, Millport was originally built in the mid 18th century by Captain Crawford of the Reserve Cutter ‘Royal George’ as a barracks for officers and crew. By the date of this dish the house was owned by the Earl of Bute, a keen buyer of Worcester porcelain, and it is likely the dish was commissioned for him.
This information is contained in a letter dated 2009, from the Curator of the Worcester Porcelain Museum, together with other paperwork which will be offered with this lot.
Sold for £620
Chamberlain’s Worcester comport, dodecagonal top gilded with foliate scrolls on a claret ground enclosing central reserve painted with figures before a gothic building, the base with red painted inscription ‘The Garrison, Millport, August 22nd 1845, Chamberlain, Worcester’, raised on conforming foot, 27cm diameter
The Garrison, Millport was originally built in the mid 18th century by Captain Crawford of the Reserve Cutter ‘Royal George’ as a barracks for officers and crew. By the date of this dish the house was owned by the Earl of Bute, a keen buyer of Worcester porcelain, and it is likely the dish was commissioned for him.
This information is contained in a letter dated 2009, from the Curator of the Worcester Porcelain Museum, together with other paperwork which will be offered with this lot.
Auction: Spring Specialist Sale, 14th Mar, 2024
Our Spring Specialist Sale of Fine Furniture, Modern Design, Paintings, Prints, Silver, Jewellery, Watches, Ceramics, Glassware & other Collectors
In what promises to be an exciting and eclectic sale, lots to be offered include an original watercolour by His Majesty King Charles III, a Victorian platinum and diamond tiara, and less regally but no less impressive, a rare early draft film script for “Raiders of the Lost Ark”.
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Wednesday 13th March - 10am till 5pm
