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Chelsea Goat and Bee Jug
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Dates
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Circa 1745
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Medium
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Porcelain
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Origin
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England
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Description
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A rare Chelsea white ‘Goat and Bee jug’ probably modelled by Nicholas Sprimont, the branch handle applied with oak leaves, the lower section finely moulded with two recumbent goats seated nose to tail, a delicate bee resting on a flowering plant above, incised triangle mark.
11cm High
7cm Wide
4cm Deep
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Condition
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Tiny chips to the leaves and a small rim chip restored.
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Literature
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F Severne Mackenna, Chelsea Porcelain, The Triangle and Raised Anchor Wares.
See a coloured example in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2875-1901)
See another example in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1983.645), in the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham (AFI.248.1998), in the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (69.162) and in the Legion of Honor, San Francisco (1990.51.4).
Chelsea ‘goat-and-bee’ jugs are the earliest dated English porcelain with a documentary example in the British Museum marked with incised date of 1745 (1905,0218.6).
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