CIRCA 1760, GOLD ANCHOR MARK

Details

A CHELSEA TURQUOISE-GROUND TAPERING SQUARE-SECTION VASE
CIRCA 1760, GOLD ANCHOR MARK
With pierced canted neck, each panel painted with masked Commedia dell'Arte figures in landscape vignettes, enriched in gilding, on scroll feet
11¾ n. (30 cm.) high

Literature

W.B. Honey, Catalogue of the Porcelain and Pottery both Oriental and European in the Collection of Earl Spencer at Althorp, 1937, no. 824 - in which it is noted that this one of a pair, the other having been broken and sent away for repair but never returned, in the 1880s.

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Lot Essay

A pair of similarly decorated vases and covers in the Lady Ludlow Collection are illustrated by Anne McNair et al., Catalogue of the Lady Ludow Collection of English Porcelain at the Bowes Museum, London, 2007, pp. 121-122, no. 121.

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