14 Apr 2010
10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street
Fine British Pottery and Porcelain
Back to auction 17811
Fine British Pottery and Porcelain
Back to auction 17811
A good Chelsea 'ten-square' saucer dish
circa 1752
With a petal-lobed rim, decorated in Kakiemon style with a phoenix-like bird in a flowering prunus tree growing from banded hedges with bamboo behind, another bird in flight to one side, the border with iron red foliage and gilt highlights, 17.8cm diam (minor wear)
With a petal-lobed rim, decorated in Kakiemon style with a phoenix-like bird in a flowering prunus tree growing from banded hedges with bamboo behind, another bird in flight to one side, the border with iron red foliage and gilt highlights, 17.8cm diam (minor wear)
Sold for
£1,440
inc. premium
Footnotes
- A similar, slightly larger dish was exhibited by Simon Spero, A Taste Entirely New, Chelsea Porcelain 1744-54 (1988), fig. 21. For the pattern in Japanese and Chelsea porcelain see the British Museum Porcelain for Palaces catalogue (1990), figs 130 and 329. The 1756 Chelsea sale catalogue included an octagonal plate decorated with 'wheat sheaf and pheasant, old pattern'
Category: Decorative Arts / British Ceramics
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