Lot 51
51
A PAIR OF CHELSEA MOTTLED CLARET-GROUND SHAPED OVAL DISHES painted with four panels of exotic birds in flight within gilt cornucopia-shaped cartouches enriched with hatched ornament and with trailing flowers, reserved on mottled claret-grounds gilt with flowering swags beneath shaped gilt dentil rims (one with chips to footrim, gilding to rims rubbed, slight crazing to one), gold anchor marks, circa 1765

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A PAIR OF CHELSEA MOTTLED CLARET-GROUND SHAPED OVAL DISHES painted with four panels of exotic birds in flight within gilt cornucopia-shaped cartouches enriched with hatched ornament and with trailing flowers, reserved on mottled claret-grounds gilt with flowering swags beneath shaped gilt dentil rims (one with chips to footrim, gilding to rims rubbed, slight crazing to one), gold anchor marks, circa 1765
39cm. wide (2)
Provenance
Anon., sale Sotheby's, 9 July 1968, lot 152 (part)
Literature
Margaret Legge, op. cit., p. 79, no. 190
Exhibited
Flowers and Fables, no. 190

Lot Essay

A service of this pattern formerly in the collection of H.R.H. The Princess of Hanover was sold at Sotheby's on 3 April 1973, lot 33 and two smaller oval dishes in these Rooms on 20 October 1986, lot 149

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