A CHELSEA PLATE painted after Hubert Gravelot with a seated gentleman, a youth hiding his face in his lap whilst a small boy sits on his back and with a running boy playing tag, flanked by trees and with an elongated puce scroll entwined with a foliage swag, the border with scattered flower-sprays including an iris and a yellow rose within a shaped brown line rim (restored rim chip at 11 o'clock, some minor scratching and rubbing to enamels), red anchor mark, circa 1756

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A CHELSEA PLATE painted after Hubert Gravelot with a seated gentleman, a youth hiding his face in his lap whilst a small boy sits on his back and with a running boy playing tag, flanked by trees and with an elongated puce scroll entwined with a foliage swag, the border with scattered flower-sprays including an iris and a yellow rose within a shaped brown line rim (restored rim chip at 11 o'clock, some minor scratching and rubbing to enamels), red anchor mark, circa 1756
23.5cm. diam.

Provenance

R.Gelston Collection
Mrs. E.R.F. Lindesay, sale Sotheby's, 29 November 1960, lot 151
Rous Lench Collection, sale Sotheby's, 1 July 1986, lot 213

Literature

F. Severne Mackenna (1951), op. cit., pl. 26, fig. 53
Cyril Cook, 'The Art of Robert Hancock', E.C.C.Transactions (1951), Vol. 3, Pt. 1, pp. 54-62, Pl. 23 (b)
Bellamy Gardner, 'Children's Games on Chelsea Plates', Apollo, February 1939, p. 60, Fig. 1

Lot Essay

The design entitled 'Le Cheval Fondu' is adapted from an engraving, perhaps by J.Bacheley, after Hubert Gravelot, see Cyril Cook (1951), op.cit., E.C.C. Transactions, Vol. 3, Pt. 1, pp. 54-62, Pl. 23 (a)

From a set of six plates, five of which were originally in the R.Gelston Collection, the sixth in the Hutton Collection. For another plate formerly in the Gelston Collection see E.C.C. Exhibition, Catalogue, 1977, no. 121

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