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A rare Chelsea sauceboat

A rare Chelsea oblong sauceboat, with 'C' scroll handle, finely painted in coloured enamels with figures, buildings and ruins, in river landscapes, in Meissen style, within two scroll moulded cartouches, picked out in puce, and with two cartouches painted with flowers, beneath moulded leaves, on four short feet, the interior painted with a flower spray, scattered flowers and a dragonfly, brown line rim, 9" long, circa 1754, red anchor mark

See Nicholas Panes, British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century, page 41, figures 55 and 56, for a bird painted sauceboat of this form. Another is recorded painted with fables by O'Neale 



A rare Chelsea sauceboat