Lot Essay
Cf. Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea and Other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection (1957), pl. 70, fig. 227.
.jpg?w=1)
CIRCA 1760
Details
A Chelsea tui and cover
Circa 1760
Modelled as Cupid holding a pair of billing doves, a ribbon about his shoulders inscribed TOUJOUR HUREUX (sic.), wearing a puce-flowered turquoise-lined cloak, crouching atop a pink, puce and purple marbled column, with gilt-metal mounts (one wing repaired, hairline crack to Cupid's body and rubbing to one knee, slight wear to gilding)
5 in. (14 cm.) high
Circa 1760
Modelled as Cupid holding a pair of billing doves, a ribbon about his shoulders inscribed TOUJOUR HUREUX (sic.), wearing a puce-flowered turquoise-lined cloak, crouching atop a pink, puce and purple marbled column, with gilt-metal mounts (one wing repaired, hairline crack to Cupid's body and rubbing to one knee, slight wear to gilding)
5 in. (14 cm.) high