Lot 53
53
A CHELSEA CHINOISERIE MOTTLED CLARET-GROUND COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER, the cup painted with an Oriental figure playing the French horn, his clothes in shades of iron-red, blue and yellow, the saucer with an Oriental figure playing the tambourine, seated among berried branches and flanked by two exotic birds, within shaped gilt hatched cartouches issuant with flowering foliage and with gilt dentil rims (very slight hairline crack to rim of saucer, rubbing to gilt rim of saucer and very slight rubbing to gilding on cup), gold anchor mark, circa 1765

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A CHELSEA CHINOISERIE MOTTLED CLARET-GROUND COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER, the cup painted with an Oriental figure playing the French horn, his clothes in shades of iron-red, blue and yellow, the saucer with an Oriental figure playing the tambourine, seated among berried branches and flanked by two exotic birds, within shaped gilt hatched cartouches issuant with flowering foliage and with gilt dentil rims (very slight hairline crack to rim of saucer, rubbing to gilt rim of saucer and very slight rubbing to gilding on cup), gold anchor mark, circa 1765
Provenance
Perhaps R.W.M. Walker Esq., sale Christie's, 18 July 1945, lot 33
Literature
Margaret Legge, op. cit., col. pl. p. 80, no. 186 (for the coffee-cup)
Exhibited
Flowers and Fables, no. 186

Lot Essay

Cf. Elizabeth Adams, op. cit., p. 154, pl. 124 for the Thompson tea and coffee-service of this pattern in the Victoria and Albert Museum; a sugar-bowl and cover and saucer-dish were sold in these Rooms on 9 October 1989, lots 118 and 119

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