Lot Essay
Eighteen plates from this service are offered in the Spencer House sale, Christie's King Street, 8 July 2010, lot 1031.
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CIRCA 1760, GOLD ANCHOR MARKS
Details
EIGHTEEN CHELSEA PLATES
CIRCA 1760, GOLD ANCHOR MARKS
Each painted with loose bouquets and scattered sprigs to the centres, the scroll-moulded borders with vignettes of birds in landscapes, enriched in gilding
Each 9¾ in. (24.8 cm.) diam. (18)
CIRCA 1760, GOLD ANCHOR MARKS
Each painted with loose bouquets and scattered sprigs to the centres, the scroll-moulded borders with vignettes of birds in landscapes, enriched in gilding
Each 9¾ in. (24.8 cm.) diam. (18)
Provenance
Probably acquired by either Georgiana, Countess Spencer (1737-1814) or Frederick, 4th Earl Spencer, either for Spencer House, London or Althorp, Northamptonshire, and thence by descent.
Literature
W.B. Honey, Catalogue of the Porcelain and Pottery both Oriental and European in the Collection of Earl Spencer at Althorp, 1937.
(II) CHELSEA, No. 830, FORTY-ONE PLATES, scrolled border painted with birds and flowers. Mark: gold anchor. About 1765. X.126. D. 9¾ in.
(II) CHELSEA, No. 830, FORTY-ONE PLATES, scrolled border painted with birds and flowers. Mark: gold anchor. About 1765. X.126. D. 9¾ in.
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