CIRCA 1750

细节

Two Chelsea lobed flared beakers
Circa 1750
Naively painted with bouquets including pink roses and chrysanthemum, and with scattered flower-sprays beneath a brown-line rim (one with rim chip, the other with several small rim chips)
2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) and 2¼ in. (7 cm.) (2)

注意事项

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拍品专文

In both paste and glaze these five beakers appear to be of the late 'Triangle' period (1744-49), however, the naive enamelling has marked parallels with some painting seen on 'Girl-in-a-Swing' class pieces, most notably a small bottle-vase in the Victoria & Albert Museum (C.6-1972), a sauceboat (C.2-1975), a sugar-bowl and ocver also in the Museum, illustrated by Elizabeth Adams, op. cit. (London, 1987), pl. 42 and a faceted pot and cover in the Potteries Museum, Stoke-on-Trent (Adams, ibid., 1987, pl. 43). A possible explanation for this could perhaps be that Gouyn, after splitting from Sprimong and leaving helsea, may have been acting as an independent decorator as well as making figures and a limited number of wares at Bennet Street. It seems unlikely, given the very high standard of enamelling at Chelsea after 1750, that these were decorated in-house.