Chamberlain’s Worcester Lidded Chocolate Cup with Saucer c1805

Description

Heading : Chamberlain’s Worcester Lidded Chocolate Cup with Saucer c1805
Date : 1802-1810
Period : George III
Marks : Hand painted iron red to lid ‘ChamberlainsWorcester 240’

Origin : Worcester. England
Colour : gilt and polychrome
Pattern : Imari pattern number 240

Features: ring handle to lid of cup
Condition : Wear to gilding especially on lid; restored (filled) chip to rim of cup with two stained cracks extended 25 and 40mm down through the body; kiln spit to edge of lid flange and underside of saucer
Restoration : as above
Dimensions :  saucer 13.1 cm diameter – cup/lid height 11.3 cm to top of ring
Weight : 336 grams combined

References: Chamberlain Worcester Porcelain (Godden. 1982) p109