Live Auction 8999Colefax and Fowler, Then and Now: Collections From Hambleden Manor, Lushill, and 39 Brook Street, Mayfair
A CHELSEA-DERBY GARNITURE
Lot 295

A CHELSEA-DERBY GARNITURE

CIRCA 1775, GOLD ANCHOR MARKS, INCISED NUMERALS

Closed10 July 2013

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GBP 3,250

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A CHELSEA-DERBY GARNITURE
CIRCA 1775, GOLD ANCHOR MARKS, INCISED NUMERALS
Painted with figures and landscapes in oval panels, reserved against a striped gilt ground, with blue borders gilt with stiff leaves, anthemion, palmettes and Vitruvian scrolls, comprising: a pair of ewers with handles terminating in horned masks, and a vase and cover with caryatid handles mounted on an associated ram's mask plinth
The vase: 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm.) high (3)

Specialist note

It is possible that the landscape vignettes are painted by Zachariah Boreman and the figures by Richard Askew. See the three vases of larger size and similar form illustrated by John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain (London, 1980) p. 140, pl. 152 and p. 141, pl. 153.