Lot 36
36
A Chelsea shaped oval tureen stand
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A Chelsea shaped oval tureen stand

CIRCA 1756, RED ANCHOR MARK

Details
A Chelsea shaped oval tureen stand
Circa 1756, red anchor mark
Moulded and painted in a bright palette with sunflowers among further blooms, buds and leaves (two leaf sections of one handle broken and repaired, one leaf section chipped, some fritting and flaking to enamels)
19¼ in. (49 cm.) wide
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

See the examples from the Collection of the Dowager Countess of Enniskillen from Kinloch House, Dunkeld, Perthshire, sale Christie's South Kensington, 22 September 1999, lots 234 and 235; see also Elizabeth Adams, Chelsea Porcelain (London, 1987), p. 98, pl. 81 for an example from the Gelston Bequest, in the Fitwilliam Museum, Cambridge, with matching hen and chicks tureen.

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