Anna Burnside
Head of Sale
Lot 56
A rare Chelsea small dish, circa 1752-53
1 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£2,500 - £3,500
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Jim Peake
Head of Department
Fergus Gambon
Director
A rare Chelsea small dish, circa 1752-53
Painted by Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale with two tigers in a bosky landscape with trees, one recumbent on the ground looking up to the other, a flock of birds in flight in the sky above, within a red and brown double-line roundel, the border painted with three scattered blossoms, the shaped rim edged in brown, 13.7cm diam
Footnotes
Provenance
Selwyn Parkinson Collection, Sotheby's, 11 October 1966, lot 240
Ruth Hoff Collection
Christie's, 9 July 2001, lot 62
With Billy Buck, Steppes Hill Farm Antiques, 2010
Literature
Tilley, Frank, 'Chelsea and First Period Worcester Porcelain in the Parkinson Collection', Antique Collector, June 1962, fig.9
White, Mary, Beasts at the Whites' House, Vol.1, 2020, p.125
These rare small dishes were made in different shapes at Chelsea in the early 1750s and were apparently not intended to be matched with teabowls or beakers. Whilst they were not all decorated by the same hand, the subjects are often pairs of animals such as this and the present example displays the characteristics of the painting of Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale, particularly in the palette and the distinctive treatment of the birds and trees. A dish of similar form painted with horses by O'Neale was sold by Bonhams on 2 December 2009, lot 38.