Fine Pottery & Porcelain - 21st February 2023
Lot 840
A rare Chelsea plate
Estimate £1,000 - £2,000 | Hammer £1500
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Description
A rare Chelsea plate, c.1752, of rococo three-sided form after a silver design by Nicholas Sprimont, painted in the Kakiemon palette with a long-tailed tiger gazing up at a red dragon curled around a tall stem of bamboo, beside a branch of flowering prunus, a small restuck rim section, 22.7cm.
Cf. Bonhams, 15th November 2017, lot 175 for a pair previously exhibited by Winifred Williams.
Provenance: the David Stopher Collection.