A CHELSEA FIGURE OF A CHINAMAN

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A CHELSEA FIGURE OF A CHINAMAN
Circa 1755
Seated on a tree-stump, his head turned to the left and with his hands tucked into the sleeves of his white robe painted with puce ornament and with an iron-red sash, his black conical hat with green-lined upturned brim and wearing black shoes, on a circular base (part of tree-stump lacking, chip to tip of shoe, brim of hat and two slight chips to edge of sash), red anchor mark
5in. (12.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. F. Severne Mackenna, Chelsea Porcealin, The Red Anchor Wares, pl. 51, fig. 102, Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea and Other English Porcelain in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, pl. 11, fig. 19, and the example sold in these Rooms on 7 June 1994, lot 31

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