Mouse, modelled as a king chess piece, made for Royal Doulton by Victorian ceramic artist George Tinworth - priced £1350 from AD Antiques.
This whimsical mouse, modelled as a king chess piece, was made for Royal Doulton by Victorian ceramic artist George Tinworth (1843-1913).
According to Victor Keats’ Illustrated Guide to World Chess Sets (1985), only two or three sets with coloured pieces by Tinworth are known to have survived from 1885, with king and queen pieces the hardest to source.
Tinworth frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy and was one of the longest-standing senior artists at Doulton, working for the pottery from 1867 until his death in 1913.
The chess piece is priced at £1350 from AD Antiques, specialist in the field of British art pottery.
