A fine South Staffordshire enamel large rectangular casket

A fine South Staffordshire enamel large rectangular casket, with gilt metal mounted hinged cover, superbly painted in colours with figures in extensive Italianate landscapes, with buildings and ruins, within yellow 'C' scroll cartouches, the bright green ground with an all over white diaper design, 8 1/2" wide, circa 1765
Provenance: With James A Lewis, New York

See Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea and Other English Porcelain and Enamel in the Irwin Untermeyer Collection, plate 130, figure 333, for an almost identical casket, formerly in the J P Morgan Collection 

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