Lot 14
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A CHELSEA MAZARINE-BLUE-GROUND SLENDER-BALUSTER VASE
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A CHELSEA MAZARINE-BLUE-GROUND SLENDER-BALUSTER VASE

CIRCA 1760, GOLD ANCHOR MARK

Details
A CHELSEA MAZARINE-BLUE-GROUND SLENDER-BALUSTER VASE
CIRCA 1760, GOLD ANCHOR MARK
Painted with a vignette of exotic birds in scrub and among branches within a shield-shaped cartouche gilt with scrolls and issuing trellis and flowers, the lower part pendant with a diaper-pattern section, the mottled ground gilt with scattered insects, between gilt dentil-pattern and flowerhead borders
9½ in. (24.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Major J.C. Bulteel, D.S.O., M.C.
Anon., sale Christie's London, 2nd May 1955, lot 143.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

In his paper Chelsea Gold Anchor Vases I: The Forms J.V.G. Mallet attributes the present vase to the late red anchor/gold anchor period 1756-9, see E.C.C., Transactions, Vol. 17, Pt. 1, 1999, pp. 131-2, pl. 11.

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