Anna Burnside
Head of Sale
Anton Gabszewicz Collection
Lot 122
An early Chelsea shell salt, circa 1745-49
19 November 2025, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£3,000 - £5,000
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Fergus Gambon
Director
Jim Peake
Head of Department
An early Chelsea shell salt, circa 1745-49
In the form of an upturned shell resting on a wreath of red coral encrusted with delicately modelled shells and seaweed picked out in bright colours, the shell dish painted with more green weed and red coral, the interior base with a scallop shell, 7.8cm wide, incised triangle mark
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Provenance
Anton Gabszewicz Collection
A similar example from the Zorka Hodgson Collection was sold by Bonhams on 10 September 2008, lot 1. A related pair of salts is illustrated by John Austin, Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg (1977), p.28, fig.10. The distinctive enamelling on this small group of salts was most likely added in the independent London workshop of William Duesbury. An example left in the white is illustrated by F Severne Mackenna, Chelsea Porcelain, The Triangle and Raised Anchor Wares (1948), pl.4, fig.10.