Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A CHELSEA FIGURE OF A NIGHT-WATCHMAN'S COMPANION
Lot 90

A CHELSEA FIGURE OF A NIGHT-WATCHMAN'S COMPANION

CIRCA 1760, GOLD ANCHOR MARK

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 1,125

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A CHELSEA FIGURE OF A NIGHT-WATCHMAN'S COMPANION
CIRCA 1760, GOLD ANCHOR MARK
Modelled after the Meissen original from the Cris de Paris series, the lady standing by a tree-stump, holding a lantern in her left hand and a basket of fruit over her right arm, in a turquoise hat over a black flowing headdress, a flowered apron and a pink bodice and skirt, the base applied with flowers and leaves and moulded with gilt rococo scrolls, (restoration to hat, neck, headdress and left foot)
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high

Specialist note

See the footnote to lot 89, the companion figure to the present lot

For an illustration of both the night-watchman and his companion (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) see Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea and other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, London, 1957, pl. 21, fig. 44.