Lot 28
28
A CHELSEA WHITE FIGURE OF A ROSE-SELLER, the girl standing before a tree-stump holding a pierced basket filled with flowers, wearing a scarf and a garland of flowers in her hair, her white blouse with frilled collar and her bodice fastened with two flowerheads, wearing an apron and skirt with fringed hem, on a shaped rockwork base applied with flowers and foliage (left hand restored at wrist, restoration to index finger of right hand and right toe, chips to flowers in basket, two flowers and some foliage lacking from base, minute chip to cuff of sleeve), 1750-52

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A CHELSEA WHITE FIGURE OF A ROSE-SELLER, the girl standing before a tree-stump holding a pierced basket filled with flowers, wearing a scarf and a garland of flowers in her hair, her white blouse with frilled collar and her bodice fastened with two flowerheads, wearing an apron and skirt with fringed hem, on a shaped rockwork base applied with flowers and foliage (left hand restored at wrist, restoration to index finger of right hand and right toe, chips to flowers in basket, two flowers and some foliage lacking from base, minute chip to cuff of sleeve), 1750-52
24.5cm. high
Literature
Margaret Legge op. cit. p. 30, no. 18
Exhibited
Flowers and Fables, no. 18

Lot Essay

This figure is most probably an early work of Joseph Willems derived from a print by Gabriel Huquier, taken from a woodcut entitled 'Donzella Contadine di Parma' published by Cesare Vecellio, Degli Habiti Antichi e Moderni di tutto il Mondo: di nuovo accresciuti di molte figure, Venezia 1590

Cf. Elizabeth Adams, op. cit., p. 90, pl. 76 for a coloured version of this rare figure with a raised anchor mark, from the Katz Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The present example is mentioned, ibid., p. 207, fn. 25. See also Arthur Lane, 'Chelsea Figures and the Modeller Joseph Willems', Connoisseur, CXLV, 1960, pp. 245-251, figs. 9 and 10

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