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Lot 64
A Chelsea figure of a lady Circa 1755-58.
8 April 2009, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£600 - £800
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Circa 1755-58.
Emblematic of Spring, wearing a turquoise bodice and a pink skirt above a pale-yellow underskirt, a white shawl around her shoulders, holding a basket filled with flowers, standing in a garden before flowering bocage and a vase upon a pedestal, upon a mound base moulded with scrolls picked out in puce and applied with colourful flowers, 20cm high, red anchor mark to the reverse of the base (the vase a later replacement, some losses and restoration)
Emblematic of Spring, wearing a turquoise bodice and a pink skirt above a pale-yellow underskirt, a white shawl around her shoulders, holding a basket filled with flowers, standing in a garden before flowering bocage and a vase upon a pedestal, upon a mound base moulded with scrolls picked out in puce and applied with colourful flowers, 20cm high, red anchor mark to the reverse of the base (the vase a later replacement, some losses and restoration)
Footnotes
For the model with a companion figure of a gentleman emblematic of Autumn see F.Severne Mackenna, Chelsea Porcelain The Red Anchor Wares (1951), pl 63, figs 124 and 125
