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拍品專文
So-called tea-plant moulded decoration paradoxically does not occur on Chelsea tea-wares, but only on this type of coffee (or chocolate) pot, sugar-bowls, cream-jugs, beakers and saucers. While it bears a superficial resemblance to the 'prunus' decoration more commonly found on blanc-de-chine and European copies of that porcelain, the spiralling stalks punctuated by flowerheads depict the plant perhaps now better known to as the camellia. F. Severne Mackenna, op. cit., p. 26, attributes the design to a silver original derived from a design published in Plukenet's Phytographia, published in 1691.
Cf. John C. Austin, Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg (1978), pl. 15; F. Severne Mackenna, ibid, (1948), pl. 4, fig. 9 for the example formerly in M.G. Kaufman's Collection; see also the examples sold in these Rooms on 28 June 1993, lot 245; and the example formerly in the Parkinson Collection sold twice in these Rooms on 6 June 1988, lot 204 and 5 June 1978, lot 135.
Cf. John C. Austin, Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg (1978), pl. 15; F. Severne Mackenna, ibid, (1948), pl. 4, fig. 9 for the example formerly in M.G. Kaufman's Collection; see also the examples sold in these Rooms on 28 June 1993, lot 245; and the example formerly in the Parkinson Collection sold twice in these Rooms on 6 June 1988, lot 204 and 5 June 1978, lot 135.