A CHELSEA WHITE FIGURE OF AN OLD WOMAN modelled by Joseph Willems, standing holding a basket of coloured grapes, one side of her mob-cap pinned up and wearing a shawl, long jacket and skirt and black shoes, her face naturally tinted, the square base with canted angles applied with two yellow flowers and foliage (some grapes, vine leaves and one handle of basket lacking, chips to flowers and foliage on base), circa 1756

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A CHELSEA WHITE FIGURE OF AN OLD WOMAN modelled by Joseph Willems, standing holding a basket of coloured grapes, one side of her mob-cap pinned up and wearing a shawl, long jacket and skirt and black shoes, her face naturally tinted, the square base with canted angles applied with two yellow flowers and foliage (some grapes, vine leaves and one handle of basket lacking, chips to flowers and foliage on base), circa 1756
19cm. high

Provenance

Anon. purchase, Brighton 1904

Lot Essay

Cf. Reginald Blunt (Ed.), The Cheyne Book of Chelsea China and Pottery, Pl. 6, no. 176B for the example formerly in the McEuen Collection (perhaps the present example), exhibited Chelsea Town Hall 1924. See also F. Severne Mackenna (1951), op.cit., Pl. 75, fig. 149 for the example in the collection of Lord & Lady Fisher, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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