CIRCA 1760, EACH WITH GOLD ANCHOR MARK AND IMPRESSED R MARK

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A pair of Chelsea groups of gallants and companions emblematic of the Seasons
Circa 1760, each with gold anchor mark and impressed R mark
Winter and Spring as a gentleman in fur-trimmed puce hat and blue jacket, with coloured and gilt waistcoat and trousers, his companion holding a bouquet, with flowers gathered in her apron and wearing a red bodice and coloured and gilt-patterned skirt, Summer and Autumn as a gentleman in coloured and gilt-patterned frock-coat with a blue apron full of fruit, his companion in green bodice, pink-lined overskirt and a patterned and gilt skirt, on high pierced scroll-moulded bases applied with flowers, wheatsheaves and gilding (Spring with large chip to edge of apron, crack through left wrist, cracks to reverse and base, losses and restoration to foliage; Summer with restored hat, right arm and sickle, Autumn with crack through right wrist, restoration to foliage and crack to base, other minor chips and damages) (2)

Provenance

H.J. Joel Collection, sold in these Rooms, 17 April 1980, lot 9.

Special notice

VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer’s premium.

Lot Essay

Cf. the pair from the collection of the late Samuel Messer Esq., sold in these Rooms on 16 November 1992, lot 69. Another pair was sold in these Rooms, 5 December 1994, lot 45; these are illustrated by Margaret Legge, A Survey of Chelsea Porcelain 1745-1769 (1984), col. pl. 65, no. 145 and were also exhibited in 'Flowers and Fables, A Survey of Chelsea Porcelain', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, November 1984 - February 1985, no. 145. For the group of Winter and Spring see Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea and other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamels in the Irwin Untermyer Collection (1957), pl. 36.

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