A Chelsea fable-decorated octagonal teapot

CIRCA 1753

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A Chelsea fable-decorated octagonal teapot
Circa 1753
Painted in the manner of Jefferyes Hammett O'Neale with the fable of The Goat in the Well, the reverse with scattered ombrierte insects and flowers (the reverse broken into sections and re-stuck)
4¼in. (11cm.) high

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's, 23 February 1987, lot 165.

Lot Essay

Cf. F. Severne Mackenna, op. cit., pl. 44, fig. 89. See also Reginald Blunt (Ed.), The Cheyne Book of Chelsea China and Pottery (1924), pl. 3, no. 19 for a teabowl with this subject then in the Gardner Collection.

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