Lot 211

Condition is good with no visible signs of repair or damage.


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Sotheby's Belgravia, English Ceramics, June 1977, Lot 335

In 1852 two Irish men, William Henry Kerr (1823-1879) and Richard William Binns (1819-1900), took over the management of the Chamberlain & Co. porcelain works in Seven Street Worcester.
Thomas Bott was a great enameller born in Kidderminster and worked for Richardsons glass works at Wordsley 1848, exhibition at the Great Exhibition in 1851. Mr Binns encouraged him to Royal Worcester in 1853 where he was employed on the Shakespeare service and developed his speciality 'Limoges Enamels'. His work obtained distinctions in a Paris Exposition Universelle in 1855 and at the London 1862 International Exhibition. He is said to have died from poisoning from licking his brushes.