THE PROPERTY OF A CONTINENTAL LADY
A Chelsea fable-decorated octagonal coffee-cup and a saucer

CIRCA 1750

细节
A Chelsea fable-decorated octagonal coffee-cup and a saucer
Circa 1750
The cup with elaborate scroll handle, painted in the manner of Jefferyes Hammett O'Neal with the fable of the Lion and the Mouse, the interior with a flower-spray and an insect; the saucer with the fable of the Fox and Grapes within an iron-red double-line circular cartouche, the well with three flower-sprays, beneath brown-line rims (slight sanding to handle and rim of cup)
The cup 2¼in. (6cm.) high, the saucer 4 7/8in. (12.cm.) wide
来源
For the cup:
Gervas Huxley, Esq., C.M.G., sold in these Rooms, 18 May 1954, lot 37. Hurlbutt Collection.
Malcaster Collection.

For both cup and saucer:
Anon., sale in these Rooms, 22 May 1962, lot 131.
出版
Gervas Huxley, Tea in Porcelain (1952) (for the cup).
展览
Chelsea China Exhibition, Royal Hospital Chelsea, June-July 1951
(the cup).
English Ceramic Circle Exhibition, 1948, No. 221.
The Chelsea China Exhibition, ibid., No. 5.
The Tea Centre, September 1952
(the saucer).