CIRCA 1756, RED ANCHOR MARK

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A Chelsea group of the Tyrolean Dancers
Circa 1756, red anchor mark
Modelled by Joseph Willems after the Meissen original by J.F. Eberlein as a young man and a girl dancing, he wearing a feathered hat and a mask, his turquoise jacket with puce sleeves and in white breeches, his companion in a puce bodice, yellow skirt and white apron, on a shaped circular gilt scroll-moulded base applied with coloured flowers (restoration to his right leg and thumb, feather and rosette in hat, some minor chipping)
7in. (18cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Elizabeth Adams, Chelsea Porcelain (1987), pl. 98, and F. Severne Mackenna, Chelsea Porcelain, The Red Anchor Wares (1951), pl. 70, no. 138 for similar models.

For the attribution to Willems see Arthur Lane, 'Chelsea Porcelain Figures and the Modeller Joseph Willems', Connoisseur, May 1960.

The original Meissen model was first modelled in 1735 by Eberlein and twice revised by Kändler, the last version being closely copied at Chelsea.

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