Lot Essay
See Major W.H. Tapp, 'The First Chelsea Fable Painter', Apollo, August 1943, fig. I for a similarly painted teabowl; see also F. Severne Mackenna, Chelsea Porcelain, The Red Anchor Wares (1951), pl. 30, fig. 58, for a fluted bowl in the author's collection with a similar treatment of this subject, which was sold by Sotheby's, 12 March 1957, lot 146.