CIRCA 1755

Details

A PAIR OF CHELSEA PORCELAIN MUSICIAN FAMILY FIGURE GROUPS
CIRCA 1755
6 ¾ in. (17 cm.), the taller

Provenance

Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964.

Literature

Y. Hackenbroch, Chelsea and Other English Porcelain Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, MA, 1957, pl. 37, fig. 50.
House Beautiful, August 1949, cover image.

Lot Essay

In Chelsea Sale Catalogue, March 14, 1755, lot 39 one group is described as "Two VERY FINE FIGURES playing on the guitar and german flute."

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