Beschreibung:

An important Chamberlain 'Shakespeare-subject' garniture of three vases and two covers, attributed to Humphrey Chamberlain, circa 1810-20 With pale salmon grounds gilt with classical ornament, the central vase of campana form, the ring handles with lion terminals, painted with Falstaff and Hotspur, the side vases and covers with mask handles, painted with 'King John' and 'Julius Caesar', 15.7 and 18.5cm high, side vases with marks, titles and quotations from Shakespeare in fine red script (5) Fußnoten Illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, Chamberlain-Worcester Porcelain (1982), p.297. The painting is almost certainly by Humphrey Chamberlain and similar Shakespearean decoration is seen on many important vases including the central vase and cover of a garniture from the Abergavenny order sold by Bonhams on 7 June 2006, lot 238, and illustrated by John Sandon, The Ewers-Tyne Collection of Worcester at Cheekwood (2008), p.163. A Chamberlain plate with Shakespearean subject decoration by Humphrey Chamberlain is also illustrated by Godden (1982), p.169. Humphrey Chamberlain worked on the dessert service made for the Prince Regent and referred to by his nephew Thomas Chamberlain as 'one small dessert service painted with subjects from Shakespeare by my uncle for the Prince Regent cost the latter 4000 pounds'. This is likely to be the set now in Los Angeles County Museum of Art.