Lot 43
43
A CHELSEA SILVER-SHAPED OVAL DISH with moulded thumbpieces, painted in a vibrant Kakiemon palette with a red tiger looking up towards a sinuous red-scaled dragon entwined about pine, prunus and bamboo and flanked by cloud scrolls (some minute rubbing to enamels), raised anchor mark, circa 1750

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A CHELSEA SILVER-SHAPED OVAL DISH with moulded thumbpieces, painted in a vibrant Kakiemon palette with a red tiger looking up towards a sinuous red-scaled dragon entwined about pine, prunus and bamboo and flanked by cloud scrolls (some minute rubbing to enamels), raised anchor mark, circa 1750
25cm. wide
Provenance
Wallace Elliot or Bellamy Gardner Collections
Frank Hurlbutt Collection, sale Sotheby's, 9 October 1945, lot 144 (part)
Literature
F. Severne Mackenna, Chelsea Porcelain, The Triangle and Raised Anchor Wares, pl. 19, no. 43
Exhibited
'Porcelain through the Ages', 1934

Lot Essay

Cf. the examples sold in these Rooms on 6 June 1988, lot 205 and 13 February 1989, lot 75

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