Details
A CHELSEA WHITE ACANTHUS-LEAF-MOULDED TEABOWL, the exterior naturally modelled as spiralling overlapping acanthus leaves beneath a slightly everted waved rim (slight firing-crack to rim), blue crown and trident mark, circa 1749
7.8cm. diam.
7.8cm. diam.
Provenance
The late Mr. and Mrs. James McG. Stewart of Halifax, Nova Scotia, sale Sotheby's, 13 November 1973, lot 74
Literature
Geoffrey Wills, 'The Marks on Early Chelsea', Apollo, March 1959, fig. III
Margaret Legge, op. cit., col. pl. p. 25., no. 14 and p. 26 where the author lists the recorded crown and trident marked pieces
Margaret Legge, op. cit., col. pl. p. 25., no. 14 and p. 26 where the author lists the recorded crown and trident marked pieces
Exhibited
Flowers and Fables, no. 14