CIRCA 1760, THE SAUCER WITH GOLD ANCHOR MARK

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A Chelsea flared bucket-shaped teabowl and saucer
Circa 1760, the saucer with gold anchor mark
Painted in the atelier of James Giles in green camaieu, the teabowl with a continuous wooded landscape with buildings and the saucer with a church tower to the left (rubbing to gilt dentil rims to teabowl)

Provenance

Thomas, 2nd Marquess of Bath (1765-1837), Longleat, Wiltshire and by descent at Longleat.

Literature

1896 Inventory (2nd Marquess' Heirloons), p.119v, Chapel Corridor, 'A white Chelsea china cup and saucer decorated landscape and houses in green and gilt edges'.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Cf. F. S. Mackenna, Chelsea, The Gold Anchor Wares (Leigh-on-Sea, 1952), pls. 1 & 2; Gerald Coke, In Search of James Giles (Wingham, 1983), p. 203, pl. 31 a-c.; also Elizabeth Adams, Chelsea Porcelain (London, 2001), fig. 11.1 for a saucer, who considers it not to be the work of Giles ('why add the gold anchor mark?'). See also the E.C.C. Exhibition Catalogue (London, 1948), pl. 52, no. 240 for a similarly painted slop-basin.

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