Chelsea Pot Pourri Vase and Cover

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Chelsea Pot Pourri Vase and Cover ( England c. 1759 to c. 1762 )

Medium

Porcelain

Dimensions

30.00cm high (  11.81 inches high)

Provenance

The Sebag Montefiore Collection
Sir Bernard Eckstein, Bt. Sothebys
29 March 1949

Literature

The Cheyne Book of Chelsea China
and Pottery, illus. no.74

Description / Expertise

This important crimson-ground pot
pourri vase and cover is decorated
with four panels of domestic birds
in the manner of Melchior
Hondecoeter. The shape, which is
derived from the Vincennes pot
pourri à jour, circa 1752, was
introduced at Chelsea in 1759, as
was the crimson ground colour.
The panels are by the same
hand as the bird painting on
the Chesterfield, Foundling and
Dudley vases.