the slightly tapering cylindrical cup with twin ring handles, domed cover with similar handle, gilt beaded borders throughout, painted with a large panel of an Australian 'Striped Headed Manakin', the bird depicted on a branch beside a river, title to underside of cup, script Chamberlains Worcester marks to all, stand 13cm diameter

The perched bird (also called a striated pardalote, common throughout Australia) is after an illustration by Frederick Polydore Nodder (fl.1770-1801) of 1794. It was used in George Shaw's 'The Naturalist's Miscellany', consisting of twenty-two volumes published by Nodder & Co., London, between 1789-1813. As well as illustrating this periodical, Nodder is noted for helping Joseph Banks prepare the 'Banks Florilegium' and engraved for publication most of Sydney Parkinson's Australian plant drawings from the 'Endeavour' expedition.

Provenance: a Swiss Private Collection of English Porcelain