A fine and rare Rockingham chamberstick, the border with crisply moulded C- scrolls and fans and the signature three spur handle enhanced with gilding.  Both bowl and sconce finely decorated with intricate seaweed gilding interspersed with colourful roses, rosebuds, foliage and an exotic flying insect. The underneath with gilt footrim  and puce printed Griffin backstamp. For a virtually identical chamberstick see Alwyn and Angela Cox "Rockingham 1745 to 1842" Figure 258.

Width: 4 1/4 inches  (10.75 cm).  Height: 1 3/4  inches  (4.5 cm)

Date: Circa 1835

Condition: Very good with typical minor crazing, the  top of the sconce with some very light cosmetic regilding only.
Item No. 1899.

Price: £ 550

The Rockingham factory started production in 1745 in Swinton, Yorkshire on land belonging to their patrons, the Earls Fitzwilliam, later naming the factory after a notable Fitzwilliam family member, the Marquess of Rockingham. Originally makers of country pottery,  from 1806, under the management of Thomas Brameld, they manufactured some of the finest porcelain ever produced in this country including the famous Royal Service, ordered by William IV in 1830, delivered in 1837 and now in the Royal Collection. The huge cost of producing this service, and others, was said to have contributed to the closure of the factory in 1842.