A MATCHED PAIR OF CHELSEA PORCELAIN COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE FIGURES OF 'IL CAPITANO' AND 'ISABELLA'
A MATCHED PAIR OF CHELSEA PORCELAIN COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE FIGURES OF 'IL CAPITANO' AND 'ISABELLA'

CIRCA 1758, BROWN ANCHOR MARK TO IL CAPITANO

Details
A MATCHED PAIR OF CHELSEA PORCELAIN COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE FIGURES OF 'IL CAPITANO' AND 'ISABELLA'
CIRCA 1758, BROWN ANCHOR MARK TO IL CAPITANO
6 ¼ in. (14.7 cm.) high, each
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 16 November 1945, lot 99A.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964.
Literature
C. Louise Avery, Masterpieces of European Porcelain, New York, 1949, no. 54.
Y. Hackenbroch, Chelsea and Other English Porcelain Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, MA, 1957, pl. 24, fig. 30.
Exhibited
New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Masterpieces of European Porcelain, 1949.

More from American Collecting in the English Tradition: Property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

View All
View All