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Chelsea [Lawrence Street Factory]
Set of fruit dishes c.1763
Soft-paste bone-ash porcelain | 3.5 x 20.5 cm (diameter) | RCIN 57027
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A set of four circular soft-paste bone-ash porcelain fruit dishes; each with scalloped gilt rim, five shaped Mazarine blue reserves inside, with tooled gilt insects, edged by gilt scrolls, joined by swags of flowers; painted at centre with exotic birds in landscape vignettes.
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
3.5 x 20.5 cm (diameter)
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