Live Auction 16719The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller: English & European Furniture, Ceramics and Decorations, Part I
AN ASSEMBLED CHAMBERLAIN'S WORCESTER PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND PART DINNER SERVICE
Lot 288

AN ASSEMBLED CHAMBERLAIN'S WORCESTER PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND PART DINNER SERVICE

LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE PAINTING LIKELY BY HUMPHREY CHAMBERLAIN

Closed9 May 2018

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AN ASSEMBLED CHAMBERLAIN'S WORCESTER PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND PART DINNER SERVICE
LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE PAINTING LIKELY BY HUMPHREY CHAMBERLAIN
Painted with various classical and literary scenes, titled on the reverse, comprising: a large shaped oval bowl; two oval platters; one shaped oval platter; thirty-one dinner plates; and ten soup plates
16 in. (40 cm.) long, the shaped oval platter

Collection of the Dowager Lady Nunburnholme.
With Arthur S. Vernay, New York.
Mrs. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, New York, 1933-48 (the Worcester service).
Acquired from the Estate of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1958 (the Worcester service).
Marguerite A. Keasbey, Morristown, New Jersey; Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, New York, 19 November 1960, lot 619 (the Chamberlain's service).