Pair of Chelsea Gold Anchor vases, gilt birds, c. 1770
$4,600.00 AUD
Pair of Chelsea rococo vases, the extraordinary forms with pierced neck and swags of applied colourful flowers, the waist with asymmetric scrolls across the body forming handles to the sides, a ruffle of fungi below, the whole with a mottled claret ground colour reserved with large gold silhouetted birds on branches superbly detailed in the Sevres manner. Faint trace of Gold Anchor marks, circa 1770
| Condition | very minor losses to swags, claret has mis-fired. |
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| Size | 23cm |
| References | These vases represent the last flowering of Chelsea, just before Duesbury of Derby took the firm over. Their wonderful white body was not so white anymore, and these examples show just how opaque it had become. The claret ground was always tricky, and has mis-fired on these examples. The gilt birds, which have been reserved into this ground by leaving a white patch, are finely tooled, and show the sense of drama in decoration the factory was so rightly famous for. Duesbury of Derby purchased the Chelsea works in 1769, and they most probably date to this transitional period, before the factory was finally closed in 1784. |
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