Anna Burnside
Head of Sale
Lot 101
A rare Chelsea peach-shaped cup and stand, circa 1750-52
1 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
Ask about this lot
Jim Peake
Head of Department
Fergus Gambon
Director
A rare Chelsea peach-shaped cup and stand, circa 1750-52
Fully painted in Kakiemon style with the 'Lady in a Pavilion' pattern of an elegant lady standing in a formal garden beside a birdcage, two birds in flight around her, framed by tasselled drapery, cup 6.5cm high, stand 14.8cm wide (2)
Footnotes
Provenance
With Brian Haughton Antiques, 2006
Anthony du Boulay Collection
This pattern originated in 17th century Japanese porcelain and was copied by Chantilly, Meissen and other European factories. In England it was copied at Chelsea and, at a slightly later date, at Bow. References in the Chelsea sale catalogues of 1755 to the 'Lady pattern' and in the 1756 catalogue to the 'old japan lady pattern' could refer to later examples. A Chelsea beaker with its saucer in this shape and pattern is illustrated by Ayres, Impey and Mallet, Porcelain for Palaces, 1990, p.280, no.328. For the pattern on Japanese porcelain, Chelsea and on slightly later Bow, see Ayres, Impey and Mallet, Porcelain for Palaces, 1990, pp.155 and 279-80, nos.127, 327 and 328. An identical cup and stand from the Selwyn Parkinson Collection was sold by Sotheby's on 11 October 1966, lot 230.