CIRCA 1752-5, RED ANCHOR MARK

Details

A Chelsea rectangular fluted oval dish
Circa 1752-5, red anchor mark
Painted by Jefferyes Hammet O'Neale with two back to back scenes, one with three figures examining an inscribed obelisk beside a ruined arch within a mountainous wooded river landscape with figures in a punt, the other scene with two travellers on a bridge over a river crossing to a cottage with smoke pouring from the chimney beneath a cloudy sky with flocks of birds in flight, brown line rim (some wear to enamel on raised ribs, especially to tree and obelisk)
8 1/8 in. (20.7 cm.) wide

Provenance

Bought from Winifred Williams, London, May 1982.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Cf. W.H. Tapp, 'Jefferyes Hammet O'Neale - Artist', Part I, Apollo, June 1940, pp. 156-158, figs. III and IV, where he discusses a dish with a similar inscribed obelisk, apparently with O'Neale's signature. See also Simon Spero, The Bowles Collection of 18th Century English and French Porcelain (San Francisco, 1995), p. 27, pl. 20 for a dish of similar form to the present lot, also by O'Neale.

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