Period: Regency
Maker: Chamberlain Worcester
An eye-catching pair of Chamberlain Worcester coffee cups, decorated with gilt vermicelli on light orange ground. The saucers are bordered with a chain of gilt diamonds, repeated inside the top rim of the cups.
Chamberlain’s ‘Baden’ cup has a distinctive flared bucket profile, often with kidney-shape handles, and remained in production from about 1809 right up until the 1840s.
The cups and saucers are unmarked.
Condition The two saucers are generally excellent with no damage. There is slight gilt rubbing to the outer rim edges, and on one saucer, a few tiny spots of rubbing to the gilt band around the central medallion. One cup is in VG condition. The other has two old parallel glaze hairlines, each about 7mm, extending diagonally from the upper rim. The base exteriors of both cups have impurities in the glaze, crazing and staining. (See close-up photos.) This does not affect the inside of the cups.
From the Coldwell Collection
Cups height: 6.8 cm, diameter 8.3 cm; width, with handle: 10 cm
Saucers diameter: 13.8 cm & 13.9 cm
Net weight: 440 g
Medium: Hybrid hard-paste porcelain
Origin: Worcester, England
For background on the factory, see Chamberlain(s), Worcester, 1788-1852 in Makers & Artists
