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Chelsea Teapot and Cover
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Back
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Print Details
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Request Details
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Dates
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Circa 1750
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Description
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An extremely rare raised Anchor period Chelsea hexagonal teapot and cover painted in a Kakiemon pattern and palette, with the "flaming tortoise" and pine branches, the reverse painted with a large stalk and flowering branches.
Provenance: Lady Kate Davson
13cm High
17cm Wide (handle to spout)
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Condition
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Cover broken and professionally reattached, handle reattached and finial replaced
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Literature
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Ayers, Impey & Mallet, Porcelain for Palaces, p. 281, no 330 for a Chelsea bowl with this pattern.
The 1755 Chelsea sale catalogue records this pattern as a "flaming tortoise" although the creature is actually a Japanese mythical creature called Minogame.
Some Minogame are said to live up to 10,000 years. The strange thing about Minogame is its tail made out of seaweed and algae. The most famous Minogame is from the legend of Urashima Taro.
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