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A Royal Worcester porcelain…
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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
25-Mar-2024
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Description:
A Royal Worcester porcelain 'Countess of Dudley' service covered sugar bowl, dated 1865, the decoration by Thomas Scott Callowhill and James Callowhill, the jewelling and gilding by Samuel Ranford, Cup-shaped on three gilt lion's paw feet with a finialled raised cover, the bowl with three oval gilt-ground reserves decorated in coloured enamels with profile portraits of classical women, the bowl and cover otherwise decorated throughout with graduated turquoise jewelling against the finely-jewelled gilt ground, white-jewelled borders to the cover, rim, reserves, and underside, the underside of one foot signed 'T. & J. Callowhill', a printed factory mark to the underside of cover with date '65', 11 cm high. Other notes: this sucrier is believed to be a prototype or trial piece for the exquisite tea service commissioned by the city of Worcester Corporation and presented to lady Georgina Elizabeth Moncrieffe upon her marriage to William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley in late 1865, later exhibited to great acclaim at the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris., at the request of the Earl, who sat as a director on the Royal Worcester board, a duplicate set was made for public exhibition at the factory, where it remains on display at the Museum of Royal Worcester.. Condition: Nibbles to decorations particularly inside and internal lid gilt loss
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Category:
Ceramics: Royal Worcester