A CHELSEA MODEL OF A DOVECOTE AS A PERFUME BURNER

CIRCA 1758, IRON-RED/BROWN ANCHOR MARK

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A CHELSEA MODEL OF A DOVECOTE AS A PERFUME BURNER
Circa 1758, iron-red/brown anchor mark
Modelled as a large brick dovecote surmounted by colorful doves above a flowering tree and red fox stalking dove, mounted as a lamp
14½in. (36.9cm.) high, the porcelain

Provenance

With James A. Lewis, New York
Mrs. Edward F. Hutton, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 7-10 June 1972, lot 269

Literature

F. Severne Mackenna, Chelsea Porcelain, The Red Anchor Wares, Leigh-on-Sea, 1951, p. 93 and fig. 92

Lot Essay

See Property from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Christie's New York, 21-22 January, 1998, lot 461, without the fox. Another example of this model with a fox prowling below the dovecote remains in the Wrightsman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A third example in the Bowles Collection, San Francisco Museum of Fine Art, Palace of the Legion of Honor, dated circa 1755-56. See Simon Spero, The Bowles Collection of 18th-Century English and French Porcelain, San Francisco, 1995, cat. no. 42

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