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A Rare Pair of Chelsea Endive Boxes and Covers, Circa 1755
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A Rare Pair of Chelsea Endive Boxes and Covers, Circa 1755
naturalistically modeled as a head of tightly packed green-edged leaves ribbed in pale yellow, red anchor marks to covers, one cover marked twice.
Width 6 1/2 in.
16.5 cm
Provenance
Mrs. Rudolph de Trafford, England (by 1951);
Christie's London, October 28, 1963, lots 28-29 (with stands);
Phillips London, June 6, 1996, lot 581
Literature
Illustrated Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of Chelsea China at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, exh. cat., London 1951, p. 17, cat. no. 68
Exhibited
London, Royal Hospital, Chelsea, Loan Exhibition of Chelsea China, June 20, 1951–July 21, 1951
Catalogue note
Cos lettuce tureens are mentioned in the 1755 Chelsea Sale Catalogue, Fifteenth Day's sale, Wednesday, March 26th: "Two fine coss lettices and two leaves".
A second pair was sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, The Garbisch Collection, May 17, 1980, lot 23. One from the pair subsequently entered the collection of Dr. and Mrs Sidney Merians and was later sold at Sotheby's New York, October 22, 2010, lot 21 ($26,250). An assembled pair from the Collection of Margaret Thayer Talbott, New York, sold at Parke Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, March 8, 1986, and again, Sotheby's New York, Property of Mrs Enid A. Haupt, October 9, 1990, lot 17.
naturalistically modeled as a head of tightly packed green-edged leaves ribbed in pale yellow, red anchor marks to covers, one cover marked twice.
Width 6 1/2 in.
16.5 cm
Provenance
Mrs. Rudolph de Trafford, England (by 1951);
Christie's London, October 28, 1963, lots 28-29 (with stands);
Phillips London, June 6, 1996, lot 581
Literature
Illustrated Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of Chelsea China at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, exh. cat., London 1951, p. 17, cat. no. 68
Exhibited
London, Royal Hospital, Chelsea, Loan Exhibition of Chelsea China, June 20, 1951–July 21, 1951
Catalogue note
Cos lettuce tureens are mentioned in the 1755 Chelsea Sale Catalogue, Fifteenth Day's sale, Wednesday, March 26th: "Two fine coss lettices and two leaves".
A second pair was sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, The Garbisch Collection, May 17, 1980, lot 23. One from the pair subsequently entered the collection of Dr. and Mrs Sidney Merians and was later sold at Sotheby's New York, October 22, 2010, lot 21 ($26,250). An assembled pair from the Collection of Margaret Thayer Talbott, New York, sold at Parke Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, March 8, 1986, and again, Sotheby's New York, Property of Mrs Enid A. Haupt, October 9, 1990, lot 17.
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A Rare Pair of Chelsea Endive Boxes and Covers, Circa 1755
naturalistically modeled as a head of tightly packed green-edged leaves ribbed in pale yellow, red anchor marks to covers, one cover marked twice.
Width 6 1/2 in.
16.5 cm
Provenance
Mrs. Rudolph de Trafford, England (by 1951);
Christie's London, October 28, 1963, lots 28-29 (with stands);
Phillips London, June 6, 1996, lot 581
Literature
Illustrated Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of Chelsea China at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, exh. cat., London 1951, p. 17, cat. no. 68
Exhibited
London, Royal Hospital, Chelsea, Loan Exhibition of Chelsea China, June 20, 1951–July 21, 1951
Catalogue note
Cos lettuce tureens are mentioned in the 1755 Chelsea Sale Catalogue, Fifteenth Day's sale, Wednesday, March 26th: "Two fine coss lettices and two leaves".
A second pair was sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, The Garbisch Collection, May 17, 1980, lot 23. One from the pair subsequently entered the collection of Dr. and Mrs Sidney Merians and was later sold at Sotheby's New York, October 22, 2010, lot 21 ($26,250). An assembled pair from the Collection of Margaret Thayer Talbott, New York, sold at Parke Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, March 8, 1986, and again, Sotheby's New York, Property of Mrs Enid A. Haupt, October 9, 1990, lot 17.
naturalistically modeled as a head of tightly packed green-edged leaves ribbed in pale yellow, red anchor marks to covers, one cover marked twice.
Width 6 1/2 in.
16.5 cm
Provenance
Mrs. Rudolph de Trafford, England (by 1951);
Christie's London, October 28, 1963, lots 28-29 (with stands);
Phillips London, June 6, 1996, lot 581
Literature
Illustrated Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of Chelsea China at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, exh. cat., London 1951, p. 17, cat. no. 68
Exhibited
London, Royal Hospital, Chelsea, Loan Exhibition of Chelsea China, June 20, 1951–July 21, 1951
Catalogue note
Cos lettuce tureens are mentioned in the 1755 Chelsea Sale Catalogue, Fifteenth Day's sale, Wednesday, March 26th: "Two fine coss lettices and two leaves".
A second pair was sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, The Garbisch Collection, May 17, 1980, lot 23. One from the pair subsequently entered the collection of Dr. and Mrs Sidney Merians and was later sold at Sotheby's New York, October 22, 2010, lot 21 ($26,250). An assembled pair from the Collection of Margaret Thayer Talbott, New York, sold at Parke Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, March 8, 1986, and again, Sotheby's New York, Property of Mrs Enid A. Haupt, October 9, 1990, lot 17.
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