A Chelsea white goat and bee jug

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A Chelsea white goat and bee jug
of baluster form, the lower section moulded with two recumbent goats below a loose spray of flowers applied with a bee, the branch handle applied with leaves, incised triangle mark, 1745-49 (minor chips to leaves and the bee, a faint crack to one wing) -- 11cm. high
See front cover illustration and colour plate 4

Lot Essay

Cf. F. Severns MacKenna, Chelsea Porcelain, The Triangle and Raised Anchor Wares (1948), p. 23 and the example sold in our St. James's Rooms, 2nd November 1998, lot 75.

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