A pair of Chelsea claret-ground vases
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A pair of Chelsea claret-ground vases

CIRCA 1765, GOLD ANCHOR MARKS

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A pair of Chelsea claret-ground vases
Circa 1765, gold anchor marks
Of baluster form and hexagonal section, with white and gilt pierced scroll handles, painted with four panels of putti emblematic of the Seasons, within gilt mirror shaped panels below scrolls, flowers and ovolos (the vase with Summer and Autumn is broken through the neck and uper section and re-stuck, some scratches and light rubbing)
8¼in. (21cm.) high (2)
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Lot Essay

Cf. Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea and other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection (1957), pl. 60, fig. 64, pp. 82-3 for a similar form.

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