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A fine early Chelsea white 'tea plant' coffee pot and cover circa 1745-49
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Find your local specialistA fine early Chelsea white 'tea plant' coffee pot and cover
Of lobed pear shape, the scrolled handle with an ananthus-moulded thumbpiece hung with three husks, applied with spiral arrangements of flowering tea plants branches, the high domed cover with a fluted bun knop, 22.8cm high, incised triangle mark (chips to spout and cover, fine cracks to rim and base) (2)
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Provenance: Godden Reference Collection. Exhibited: Stoke-on-Trent Museum. Coffee pots are rare forms in Chelsea and only 'Tea Plant' and 'Acanthus' moulded examples survive. A fragment of a 'Tea Plant' coffee pot was found on the factory site by in 1843. See Aubrey Toppin, Recent Discoveries: A note on Excavations at Chelsea in 1843, EPC Trans, No III, 1931, p 69 and plate XIII where the fragment is shown alongside another example in the collection of Wallace Elliot. An unglazed cover, or mould for a cover, was found in 1906. It is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, Eighteenth-Century English Porcelain, A Selection from the Godden Reference Collection, colour pl II, and pl 8 and discussed at pps 12-14.
