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Chelsea Porcelain 'Kakiemon' Oval Basket
Circa 1752
The exterior molded as a stave wicker basket with vertical ribs and a scalloped rim, the interior hand painted in the Kakiemon palette with a phoenix in flight and another perched on a flowering prunus branch above banded hedges.
Length 8 3/4 inches.
The Rous Lench Collection; Volume One, Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1986.
With Simon Spero, London, 1999.
Exhibited:
London: Simon Spero, An Exhibition of Early English Porcelain 1745-1775, June 1999, cat, no. 4.
The present basket is one of only five known. A second was included in the Rous Lench Collection, Vol. 1, Sotheby's 1 July 1986, lot ??. Two are in the collection at Williamsburg, object no. 1964-452,1, reference, John C. Austin, Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg, 1997, p. 58, fig. 39. This pair, having red dragon and tiger decoration, were formerly in the Collection of the Marquess of Exeter, Burghley House (Sold Christie's 13 July 1959); Sir John and Lady Corah (purchased at above sale through Tilley & Co. and sold to Tilley & Co., London in 1964. The fifth is currently in the Burghley Collections and is decorated with a coiled iron-red phoenix and scattered sprigs and flowers, object no. CER0667.
Sold for $945
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500
Includes Buyer's Premium
The exterior molded as a stave wicker basket with vertical ribs and a scalloped rim, the interior hand painted in the Kakiemon palette with a phoenix in flight and another perched on a flowering prunus branch above banded hedges.
Length 8 3/4 inches.
Provenance:The Rous Lench Collection; Volume One, Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1986.
With Simon Spero, London, 1999.
Exhibited:
London: Simon Spero, An Exhibition of Early English Porcelain 1745-1775, June 1999, cat, no. 4.
The present basket is one of only five known. A second was included in the Rous Lench Collection, Vol. 1, Sotheby's 1 July 1986, lot ??. Two are in the collection at Williamsburg, object no. 1964-452,1, reference, John C. Austin, Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg, 1997, p. 58, fig. 39. This pair, having red dragon and tiger decoration, were formerly in the Collection of the Marquess of Exeter, Burghley House (Sold Christie's 13 July 1959); Sir John and Lady Corah (purchased at above sale through Tilley & Co. and sold to Tilley & Co., London in 1964. The fifth is currently in the Burghley Collections and is decorated with a coiled iron-red phoenix and scattered sprigs and flowers, object no. CER0667.
cracked through two lobes and reattached, some residue in the ribs below the restoration, firing line in the base at the footrim join
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