Fine Pottery & Porcelain - 21st February 2023
Lot 796
A Chelsea fluted teabowl and saucer
Estimate £800 - £1,200 | Hammer £1100
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Description
A Chelsea fluted teabowl and saucer, c.1752-55, painted with landscape panels in the manner of Meissen, with figures standing before harbours and Classical ruins, amongst flower sprays, moths and other flying insects, brown line rims, 16.5cm. (2)
Cf. Flowers and Fables, A Survey of Chelsea Porcelain 1745-69, no.114 for a similarly decorated dish in the National Gallery of Victoria.