Lot 45
45
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A PAIR OF CHELSEA GROUPS OF GALLANTS AND COMPANIONS EMBLEMATIC OF THE SEASONS, Winter and Spring as a gentleman in fur-edged yellow cap and fur-lined turquoise jacket, his companion holding a bouquet of flowers and with flowers in her apron, standing before yellow-berried foliage on a grasswork base applied with flowers, Summer and Autumn as a gentleman with his apron filled with fruit, his companion holding a sickle, her hat slung from her shoulders, standing before a tree-stump applied with fruit and foliage, the base applied with ears of corn and flowers, their clothes painted in bright colours and richly gilt, on high pierced scroll-moulded bases enriched with gilding (Winter/Spring cracks and restorations to his jacket and right leg, restoration to front of base, Summer/Autumn her hat and sickle extensively restored, crack to her shoulders, restoration to one scroll of base, both groups with restoration to foliage of trees and with chips and restorations to extremities), gold anchor marks, circa 1765

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A PAIR OF CHELSEA GROUPS OF GALLANTS AND COMPANIONS EMBLEMATIC OF THE SEASONS, Winter and Spring as a gentleman in fur-edged yellow cap and fur-lined turquoise jacket, his companion holding a bouquet of flowers and with flowers in her apron, standing before yellow-berried foliage on a grasswork base applied with flowers, Summer and Autumn as a gentleman with his apron filled with fruit, his companion holding a sickle, her hat slung from her shoulders, standing before a tree-stump applied with fruit and foliage, the base applied with ears of corn and flowers, their clothes painted in bright colours and richly gilt, on high pierced scroll-moulded bases enriched with gilding (Winter/Spring cracks and restorations to his jacket and right leg, restoration to front of base, Summer/Autumn her hat and sickle extensively restored, crack to her shoulders, restoration to one scroll of base, both groups with restoration to foliage of trees and with chips and restorations to extremities), gold anchor marks, circa 1765
33cm. high (2)
Literature
Margaret Legge, A Survey of Chelsea Porcealin 1745 - 1769, col. pl. p. 65, no. 145
Exhibited
Flowers and Fables, A Survey of Chelsea Porcelain 1745 - 1769, November 1984 - February 1985, no. 145

Lot Essay

Cf. the pair from the collection of the late Samuel Messer Esq., sold in these Rooms on 16 November 1992, lot 69 and the pair from the H.J. Joel Collection sold in these Rooms on 17 April 1980, lot 9. For the group of Winter and Spring see Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea and other English Porcelain Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, pl. 36

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