Lot Essay
Cf. the example in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, illustrated in Catherine Beth Lippert Eighteenth-Century English Porcelain, pp. 22 and 81.
CIRCA 1760
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A Chelsea two-handled pot-pourri vase and cover
Circa 1760
The vase of scroll-moulded baluster form with pierced neck and loop handles with flower terminals, applied with coloured flowers and foliage and painted with flower-sprays within moulded turquoise, puce and gilt cartouches on a flared scroll-moulded quatrefoil base supporting three figures, modelled as a musician playing the hurdy-gurdy flanked by a dancing gallant and his companion, the pierced scroll-moulded cover with bouquet finial (companion's left foot and ankle lacking, finial to cover and left edge of gallant's coat restuck, other minor and minute losses)
9 3/8in. (23.8cm.) high
Circa 1760
The vase of scroll-moulded baluster form with pierced neck and loop handles with flower terminals, applied with coloured flowers and foliage and painted with flower-sprays within moulded turquoise, puce and gilt cartouches on a flared scroll-moulded quatrefoil base supporting three figures, modelled as a musician playing the hurdy-gurdy flanked by a dancing gallant and his companion, the pierced scroll-moulded cover with bouquet finial (companion's left foot and ankle lacking, finial to cover and left edge of gallant's coat restuck, other minor and minute losses)
9 3/8in. (23.8cm.) high