Lot 31
31
A CHELSEA FIGURE OF A CHINAMAN seated on a fallen tree-stump, his head turned to the right and wearing a green-lined black conical hat, his hands tucked into the sleeves of his white robe painted with purple stylised star ornament and with an iron-red sash, with black pointed shoes, on a circular base (minute chip to brim of hat, tree-stump, tip of right toe and to base), red anchor mark, circa 1754

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A CHELSEA FIGURE OF A CHINAMAN seated on a fallen tree-stump, his head turned to the right and wearing a green-lined black conical hat, his hands tucked into the sleeves of his white robe painted with purple stylised star ornament and with an iron-red sash, with black pointed shoes, on a circular base (minute chip to brim of hat, tree-stump, tip of right toe and to base), red anchor mark, circa 1754
11.5cm. high
Literature
Margaret Legge, op. cit., p. 42, no. 57
Exhibited
Flowers and Fables, no. 57

Lot Essay

Cf. F. Severne Mackenna, Chelsea Porcelain, The Red Anchor Wares (1951), Pl. 51, fig. 102 and Yvonne Hackenbroch, op. cit., Pl. 25, Fig. 28 for the pair

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