19 Oct 2011
10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street
Georgian Frivolities: the Mort and Moira Lesser Collection of English Enamels
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Georgian Frivolities: the Mort and Moira Lesser Collection of English Enamels
Back to auction 19520
An important South Staffordshire enamel tea caddy and three tea canisters, circa 1770
Gilt metal mounted and of rectangular form, the hinged cover and sides finely painted with pastoral scenes, the pink borders edged in gold, the velvet-lined fitted interior containing three canisters painted in similar style, two with circular covers and one with a hinged cover, 20.5cm wide (fine cracks, some patches of restoration) (6)
Sold for
£21,250
inc. premium
Footnotes
- A similar pink ground caddy is in the Untermyer collection in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, illustrated by Yvonne Hackenbroch (1957), pl 132, fig 336. Other similar caddies are illustrated by Therle and Bernard Hughes, English Painted Enamels (1951), p 94, fig 53, and p 138, pl 73. A third pink ground example was sold at Christie's on 6th December 2005, lot 7.
Category: Decorative Arts / British Ceramics
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