A Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester Porcelain Inkstand with a view of Binstead Cottage c.1820

A fine Flight, Barr and Barr Worcester Porcelain Inkstand c.1820, of semi circular form, the front finely painted with a view of Binstead Cottage & Church, Isle of Wight. Loop handle to the reverse with solidly gilded mask head handle, inkwell reservoir to the top complete with original lid, two spouts either side of the reverse, the top and sides decorated with seaweed gilding. 

Script title and factory marks to the base referring to the Coventry Street address.

Condition: Professional restoration to an area of the lid and the two spouts. 

Binstead Lodge (also known as Binstead Cottage) was a cottage villa and marine residence north of Binstead Church on the Isle of Wight. It was built in 1807 by Elizabeth Fleming as the Island home of the Willis Fleming family, who have given their name to Binstead’s Fleming Arms.  The owner of Binstead Lodge ‒ General Ulysses de Burgh, 2nd Baron Downes ‒ was a distinguished soldier and Tory politician. He was twice wounded in the Peninsula War: at the Battle of Tavera (1809) and the Battle of Toulouse (1814). He had had his horse shot from under him at the Battle of Nivelle (1813). The Baron entered the House of Commons in 1818 and the House of Lords in 1833.