A PAIR OF CHELSEA PORCELAIN TURQUOISE-GROUND URN-SHAPED VASES AND COVERS

CIRCA 1768

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A PAIR OF CHELSEA PORCELAIN TURQUOISE-GROUND URN-SHAPED VASES AND COVERS
CIRCA 1768
Each with white and gilt pomegranate and leaf finial above stiff leaves, the rim and shoulder applied with either goat or lion masks suspending laurel swags or drapery, the lions' manes twisted into top-knots, on a conforming base
9 ¾ in. (24.5 cm) high

Provenance

With Wynn A. Sayman, MA.
Private collection, Ohio.

Lot Essay

This form, perhaps derives in part from ornament in Jacques Stella's, Livre de Vases, Paris 1667. Vases with stands of this form are rarely recorded in the literature [F. Severne McKenna, Chelsea Porcelain, The Gold Anchor Wares (Leigh-on-Sea, 1952), pl. 398, no. 74.]. A pair was included in an English Ceramics Curcle exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the property of Mrs. Bellamy Gardner and subsequently sold Sotheby's London, 22nd May 1962, lot 41. ['English Pottery and Porcelain', Commemorative Exhibition Catalogue, English Ceramics Circle, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 1949), nos. 250 and 251]. A pair with a claret ground, the property of the late Lord Leigh and the Stoneleigh Chattels Settlement, was sold Christie’s London, 14 July 2006, sale 7229, lot 6.

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