IRON-RED ANCHOR AND 273 TO COVER, IRON-RED 273 TO BASE, CIRCA 1755

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A CHELSEA PORCELAIN LEVERET TUREEN AND COVER
IRON-RED ANCHOR AND 273 TO COVER, IRON-RED 273 TO BASE, CIRCA 1755
Naturally modelled crouching to the left with pink-lined ears, black and yellow eyes, grey nose with brown whiskers, its fur with brown markings, brown claws
2¾ in. (7 cm.) high; 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) long (2)

Provenance

with Arthur S. Vernay, New York.
The Estate of Mae C. Rovensky; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15-19 January 1957, lot 470 ($525).

Special notice

Christie's is selling all lots in this sale as agent for an organization which holds a State of New York Exempt Organization certificate. Seller explicitly reserves all trademark and trade name rights and rights of privacy and publicity in the name and image of Doris Duke. No buyer of any property in this sale will acquire any right to use the Doris Duke name or image. Seller further explicitly reserves all copyright rights in designs or other copyrightable works included in the property offered for sale. No buyer of any property in the sale will acquire the rights to reproduce, distribute copies of, or prepare derivative works of such designs or copyrightable works.

Lot Essay

The 1755 Chelsea sale catalogue under the second day's sale, lot 18 mentions '... four rabbits for desart'. The entry likely refers to examples of the present model, confirming their use in an 18th century English dessert service.

See F. Severne Mackenna, Chelsea Porcelain, The Red Anchor Wares, Leigh-on-Sea, 1951, pl. 35, no. 70 for a similar pair in the Tufnell Collection. See also 50 Years of Collecting the Decorative Arts of Georgian England; Christie's King Street, 14 May 2003,lots 230 and 231 for two others numbered 154 and 294 respectively. These had been purchased in London in the 1970's and 1980's through Christie's. These two and the present example would appear to be the only leveret tureens to appear on the art market in nearly fifty years.

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