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Chelsea [Lawrence Street Factory]
Set of salts c.1763
Soft-paste bone-ash porcelain | 8.2 x 11.6 x 8.3 cm (whole object) | RCIN 57024
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A set of six of small soft-paste bone-ash porcelain salts of oval-shaped form; each with a Mazarine blue reserve with tooled gilt insects at each end rises into a turned-over scroll handle; body painted with floral swags, with scattered flowers painted inside; four scroll feet.
Provenance
Part of a similarly decorated dinner and dessert service, known as the Mecklenberg Service, commissioned by King George III and Queen Charlotte, by whom presented to her brother, Adolphus Frederick IV, Duke of Mecklenberg-Strelitz in 1764. By descent until 1919; Sir Joseph Duveen: James Oakes by whom presented to Queen Elizabeth for her Silver Wedding anniversary, 1947.
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Creator(s)
(porcelain manufacturer)(manufacturer)(nationality)Acquirer(s)
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Medium and techniques
Soft-paste bone-ash porcelain
Measurements
8.2 x 11.6 x 8.3 cm (whole object)
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