Lot 245
245
A CHELSEA WHITE TEA-PLANT BALUSTER COFFEE-POT AND COVER, the lobed sides crisply moulded with spiral flowering tea-plant, the handle with foliage-scroll thumbpiece and on an octafoil foot, the lobed high domed cover similarly moulded (two extended firing cracks to the rim, minute chips to spout and slight chip to inner rim of cover), incised triangle mark, 1745-1749

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A CHELSEA WHITE TEA-PLANT BALUSTER COFFEE-POT AND COVER, the lobed sides crisply moulded with spiral flowering tea-plant, the handle with foliage-scroll thumbpiece and on an octafoil foot, the lobed high domed cover similarly moulded (two extended firing cracks to the rim, minute chips to spout and slight chip to inner rim of cover), incised triangle mark, 1745-1749
23.5cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. John C. Austin, Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg, pl. 15, F. Severne Mackenna, Chelsea, The Triangle and Raised Anchor Wares, pl.4, fig.9 and the examples sold in these Rooms on 5 June 1978, lot 135 and 6 June 1988, lot 204

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