The Sir Bruno Welby Collection of Porcelain - 06 Feb 2025

1720

A large Chelsea cabinet cup, c.1760, finely gilded in the Vincennes manner with two Chinese

£400 - £600 £1,008

A large Chelsea cabinet cup, c.1760, finely gilded in the Vincennes manner with two Chinese musicians seated and playing the mandolin in a garden setting, a trellis arch framing the background, all reserved on a mazarin blue ground, applied with a reticulated scroll handle, 7.3cm high.

Cf. Elizabeth Adams, Chelsea Porcelain, p.149, fig.11.11 for a beaker with similar decoration from the British Museum.

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