TWO CHELSEA MODELS OF JAYS

CIRCA 1751, RAISED RED ANCHOR MARKS TO THE TREESTUMPS

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TWO CHELSEA MODELS OF JAYS
Circa 1751, raised red anchor marks to the treestumps
Each songbird perched on a tall treestump applied with leaves, its plumage almost identically picked out in purple and enriched in green, pink and blue
6¾in. (17.2cm.) high (2)

Provenance

With Philip Suval, New York, 1952

Lot Essay

See F. Severne Mackenna, Chelsea Porcelain, The Triangle and Red Anchor Wares, London, 1969 reprint, pp. 57, 84 and plate 35, fig. 71 for the example in the Victoria & Albert Museum; Reginald Blunt, The Cheyne Book of Chelsea China and Pottery, London, 1924, plate 13, no. 285 for the example then in the collection of Alfred Hutton, Esq.

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