Live Auction 7999Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Glass, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A CHELSEA FLUTED BOWL
Lot 7 THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

A CHELSEA FLUTED BOWL

CIRCA 1752-54

Closed29 November 2011

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GBP 7,500

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A CHELSEA FLUTED BOWL
CIRCA 1752-54
Painted in the manner of Jeffreyes Hammett O'Neale, with a fable scene of the Ox and the Toad, depicting an Ox in a continuous mountainous wooded landscape before two toads, the interior well with a landscape vignette, below a brown line rim (minute scratching to enamels)
3 7/8 in. (9.9 cm.) diam.

Specialist note

For the engraving after O'Neale on which this scene is based see Major W.H. Tapp, M.C., Contributions to the History of the Old Chelsea China Factory, London, 1953, p. 121, pl. 106, fig. VI. See also the saucer with a version of the same scene illustrated by Tapp, 'The First Chelsea Fable Painter', Apollo Magazine, August 1943, fig. V.