Lot 156
156
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A Chelsea fable-decorated decagonal saucer

CIRCA 1750, RAISED ANCHOR MARK

Details
A Chelsea fable-decorated decagonal saucer
Circa 1750, raised anchor mark
Painted in the manner of Jefferyes Hammett O'Neale with two bison standing and recumbent in a river landscape within an iron-red double-line circular cartouche (broken in half and repaired, minute chips)
5½in. (14cm.) diam.
Provenance
Anon., sale Christie's, 20 May 1991, lot 195.

Lot Essay

For similar saucers painted by the same hand see John C. Austin, Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg (1977), nos. 61 and 63 and F. Severne Mackenna, Chelsea Porcelain, the Triangle and Raised Anchor Wares (1948), pl. 48, fig. 95.

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