CIRCA 1750

Details

A CHELSEA OR ST. JAMES'S (CHARLES GOUYN) LOBED FLARED BEAKER
CIRCA 1750
Painted with a loose bouquet of pink roses, a pink, yellow and blue striped chrysanthemum, leaves and sprigs, the reverse with a bumble bee above a chrysanthemum and a further loose bouquet of striped pink and yellow flowers, below a brown-line waved rim (minute rim chip, two short faint hairline cracks to upper rim, crack to footrim, minor scratches to brown-line rim)
2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) high

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Five similar beakers were sold in these Rooms on 9th July 2001, lots 36- 38. See also Simon Spero, Exhibition Catalogue (2002) no. 5 for one of these.

The naïve decoration on these beakers and the present lot bear marked similarities to the decoration found on 'Girl-in-a-Swing' porcelain, for example the cream-jug from the Rous Lench Collection, sold in these Rooms on 30th May 1990, lot 356. It has been suggested this type of decoration may be that of an independent London enameller. However, a St. James's attribution for both the porcelain manufactury and the decoration should not necessarily be discounted.

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