Chelsea
(England 1744–1769)
- Title
- Dish
- Year
- circa 1752-circa 1753
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
-
4.4 x 27.5 cm diam
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.94
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
The scene of figures playing bowls is from an engraving by Frans van den Wyngaerde after David Teniers the Younger. The glaze is opacified with tin oxide as is commonly the case with raised anchor and early red anchor Chelsea.
- Bibliography (1)
-
Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 54 (colour illus.). cat.no. 59
