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CIRCA 1752, BRITISH MUSEUM ACCESSION AND CATALOGUE NUMBERS 99/10-6/49 AND II.61 IN BLACK, INDISTINCT INVENTORY NUMBER C.279.CF(?) IN RED, PERHAPS FOR C. DRURY FORTNUM
Details
A Chelsea Kakiemon large shaped circular dish
Circa 1752, British Museum accession and catalogue numbers 99/10-6/49 and II.61 in black, indistinct inventory number C.279.CF(?) in red, perhaps for C. Drury Fortnum
Finely painted in a vibrant palette lightly enriched in gilding with a phoenix with a spectacular blue and red tail feathers and green rockwork beneath prunus, another phoenix in flight above banded hedges with bamboo with scattered flowers and foliage around, within a shaped rim (shallow rim chip at 5 o'clock)
11 in. (28 cm.) wide
Circa 1752, British Museum accession and catalogue numbers 99/10-6/49 and II.61 in black, indistinct inventory number C.279.CF(?) in red, perhaps for C. Drury Fortnum
Finely painted in a vibrant palette lightly enriched in gilding with a phoenix with a spectacular blue and red tail feathers and green rockwork beneath prunus, another phoenix in flight above banded hedges with bamboo with scattered flowers and foliage around, within a shaped rim (shallow rim chip at 5 o'clock)
11 in. (28 cm.) wide
Provenance
C. Drury Fortnum bequest, British Museum, 1899.
Sold by the trustees under the terms of the bequest, Sotheby's 14th December 1961, lot 138.
Selwyn Parkinson, sale Sotheby's, 21 June 1966, lot 145.
Marjorie Wiggin Prescott, sale Christie's, New York, 6 March 1981, lot 99.
Bought from Winifred Williams, London, May 1982.
Sold by the trustees under the terms of the bequest, Sotheby's 14th December 1961, lot 138.
Selwyn Parkinson, sale Sotheby's, 21 June 1966, lot 145.
Marjorie Wiggin Prescott, sale Christie's, New York, 6 March 1981, lot 99.
Bought from Winifred Williams, London, May 1982.
Literature
R.L. Hobson, Catalogue of the English Porcelain in the British Museum (1905), p.40, no.II.61.
Frank Tilley, 'Chelsea and First Period Worcester Porcelain', Antique Collector, June 1962, pl.1.
Frank Tilley, 'Chelsea and First Period Worcester Porcelain', Antique Collector, June 1962, pl.1.
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