CIRCA 1752-54

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A CHELSEA FLUTED BOWL
CIRCA 1752-54
Painted in the manner of Jeffreyes Hammett O'Neale, with a fable scene of the Ox and the Toad, depicting an Ox in a continuous mountainous wooded landscape before two toads, the interior well with a landscape vignette, below a brown line rim (minute scratching to enamels)
3 7/8 in. (9.9 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

For the engraving after O'Neale on which this scene is based see Major W.H. Tapp, M.C., Contributions to the History of the Old Chelsea China Factory, London, 1953, p. 121, pl. 106, fig. VI. See also the saucer with a version of the same scene illustrated by Tapp, 'The First Chelsea Fable Painter', Apollo Magazine, August 1943, fig. V.

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