A CHELSEA PLATE en suite to the preceding lot, painted after Hubert Gravelot with a girl in a blue dress seated on an elongated puce foliage scroll entwined with a swag of foliage watching two boys rolling hoops flanked by trees, the border painted with scattered flowers within a shaped brown line rim (four restored rim chips, slight scratching to enamels and rubbing to glaze), red anchor mark, circa 1756

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A CHELSEA PLATE en suite to the preceding lot, painted after Hubert Gravelot with a girl in a blue dress seated on an elongated puce foliage scroll entwined with a swag of foliage watching two boys rolling hoops flanked by trees, the border painted with scattered flowers within a shaped brown line rim (four restored rim chips, slight scratching to enamels and rubbing to glaze), red anchor mark, circa 1756
24cm. diam.

Provenance

R. Gelston Collection
Mrs. E.R.F. Lindesay, sale Sotheby's, 29 November 1960, lot 153
Rous Lench Collection, sale Sotheby's, 1 July 1986, lot 214

Literature

F. Severne Mackenna (1951), op. cit., Pl. 26, fig. 53
Cyril Cook (1951), op. cit., E.C.C. Transactions, Vol. 3, Pt. 1, pp. 54-62, Pl. 23 (e)

Lot Essay

The design entitled 'Le Jeu du Cerceau' is adapted from an engraving, perhaps by J. Bacheley, after Hubert Gravelot, see Cyril Cook (1951), op. cit., E.C.C. Transactions, Vol. 3, Pt. 1, pp. 54-62, pl. 23 (d)

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