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A pair of Chelsea claret ground vases
A pair of Chelsea vases, of flattened baluster form, each with two 'C' scroll handles, finely painted in coloured enamels with children in interiors to both sides, within heart shaped panels, and gilt flower, leaf and trellis cartouches, on a claret ground, 7" high, circa 1760-62, no marks
Provenance; Hugh Langmead Collection
The Collection of a Gentleman
See Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea and Other English Porcelain in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, plate 60, figure 85, for a similar pair of vases, formerly in the Horace Walpole Collection, Strawberry Hill, and recorded in his 1764 'Description of Strawberry Hil' 'Two vases of Chelsea porcelain, claret colour, gold and white, with cartouches of historic figures' and recorded with a cost price of £14
