A rare Chamberlain’s Worcester wine cooler

A rare Chamberlain's Worcester wine cooler, in the form of the celebrated Warwick Vase, with two entwined gilt loop handles, moulded in bold relief with masks, spears and lion pelts, beneath a vine band, all picked out in gilt, on knopped stem and black glazed square base, 10 1/2" high, circa 1816-25, no mark

See G A Godden, Chamberlain Worcester Porcelain, page 246, figure 296, for another wine cooler of this form, and also page 247 for a reference from the factory order book in March 1818 'To Lady Portsmouth in Portland Square, London, Two Warwick ice pails with embossed heads...£31 10s 0d'

 

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