A PAIR OF CHELSEA PORCELAIN MAZARINE-BLUE GROUND LARGE ‘CABINET CUPS’
A PAIR OF CHELSEA PORCELAIN MAZARINE-BLUE GROUND LARGE ‘CABINET CUPS’

CIRCA 1761, GOLD ANCHOR MARKS

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A PAIR OF CHELSEA PORCELAIN MAZARINE-BLUE GROUND LARGE ‘CABINET CUPS’
CIRCA 1761, GOLD ANCHOR MARKS
Richly gilt and chased in the style of Vincennes with birds in landscape vignettes, gilt dentil rims
4 ¼ in. (10.9 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Walker Collection; Christie's, 18 July 1948, lots 51 and 52.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1948.
Literature
P. Grigaut, English Pottery and Porcelain, 1300-1850, Detroit, nos. 163,164.
Y. Hackenbroch, Chelsea and Other English Porcelain Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, MA, 1957, pl. 54, fig. 60.
Exhibited
Detriot, Michigan, Detroit Institute of the Arts, English Pottery and Porcelain, 1300-1850, 1954.

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