Fine British and European Ceramics & Glass

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Lot 109
  • 109

A large Chelsea-Derby figure of Sir Charles Pratt, Baron Earl Camden, as Lord Chancellor circa 1770-75

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Description

  • 32cm., 12¾in.
wearing bright orange robes, wig and gold chain, modelled standing beside a pillar moulded with the figure of Justice, resting his left arm on a book, a winged rod with serpent resting on the square gilt marbled base

Provenance

From the Behar Collection.
Sold Phillips London, 26th May 1993, lot 452

Exhibited

The English Ceramic Circle Exhibition, 1977, no.149

Catalogue Note

The model is based on a Ravenet engraving of 1766 after a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Another example was sold in these Rooms, 16th July 1991, lot 255; and another is illustrated by E.Adams, Chelsea Porcelain (2001), fig.13.4, p.185.

Charles Pratt (1713-94) had been called to the Bar in 1738 and after a rapid rise became Lord Chancellor and was made Baron in 1786.