Fine Pottery & Porcelain - 21st February 2024
Lot 698
A Chelsea 'Hans Sloane' botanical plate, c.1755-56, painted with a fruiting branch of Annona
Estimate £800 - £1,200 | Hammer £12600
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Description
A Chelsea 'Hans Sloane' botanical plate, c.1755-56, painted with a fruiting branch of Annona (custard apple), a butterfly and another insect, brown line rim, red anchor mark, 20.2cm.
Provenance: the Clifford Henderson Collection. Purchased from Reeman Dansie, 2nd November 2011.
Cf. Sally Kevill-Davies, Sir Hans Sloane's Plants on Chelsea Porcelain, pp.78-81. The decoration appears to derive from C J Trew, Plantae Selectae, dec.1, Tab.5, and P Miller, Figures of Plants, pl.XXXXV.