FIVE CHINESE EXPORT DISHES
A PAIR OF COALPORT TWO-HANDLED PEAR-SHAPED POT-POURRI VASES

CIRCA 1830, GOLD ANCHOR MARKS

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A PAIR OF COALPORT TWO-HANDLED PEAR-SHAPED POT-POURRI VASES
CIRCA 1830, GOLD ANCHOR MARKS
Each after the 18th century Chelsea model, with pierced everted neck and scroll-moulded handles, painted with birds before luxuriant bouquets of flowers, enriched in turquoise enamel and gilding
11 ¼ in. (28.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Colonel Herbert James Hope Edwardes, Netley Hall, Shropshire, and by descent.
Lady More (née Hope Edwardes formerly, Coldwell), Netley Hall, and subsequently Linley Hall, Shropshire, and by descent.
Literature
T. Cox, Inventory of the contents of Netley Hall, Shropshire, 1917, p. 13 (staircase and landing).

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Lot Essay

For two 18th century Chelsea 'perfume vases' and covers of this type see F. Severne Mackenna, Chelsea Porcelain, the Gold Anchor Wares, Lewis, 1952, pl. 37, no. 70.

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