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Lot 94*

A rare Chelsea teabowl and a saucer, circa 1750-52

15 December 2020, 14:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare Chelsea teabowl and a saucer, circa 1750-52

Of fluted form, painted in the famille rose palette, the teabowl with vibrant oriental flowering plants and grasses, the reverse with a flowering branch, the interior with a single flower, the saucer with a branch issuing prunus and peonies and a colourful butterfly in flight, saucer 12cm diam, Burdett-Coutts Collection inventory numbers in red (2)

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Provenance
Burdett-Coutts Collection

Chinese decoration on Chelsea is surprisingly rare and mostly copied Yongzheng 'private trade' wares from the 1730s. Two raised anchor beakers with very similar decoration are illustrated by F Severne Mackenna, Chelsea Porcelain: The Triangle and Raised Anchor Wares (1948), pl.18, no.41.

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