A Taste of Rococo: Porcelain from an American Private Collection
A Taste of Rococo: Porcelain from an American Private Collection
Two Chelsea Silver-Shaped Dishes, Circa 1755
Lot Closed
October 18, 02:36 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Two Chelsea Silver-Shaped Dishes, Circa 1755
with shell molded terminals, one painted with a landscape vignette including two large birds among flowering shrubs and grasses, with a further bird in flight overhead, the other, painted with a large spray of flowers and smaller sprigs, with a brown-edged rim, the latter with brown-black anchor mark.
Width 9 7/8 in.
25.2 cm
example painted with birds:
Barbara Leake Collection, England, bearing Label;
Bonhams London, March 12, 2008, lot 1
example painted with flowers
Robyn Robb, London, acquired in 2007