Spetchley - Property from the Berkeley Collection
Spetchley - Property from the Berkeley Collection
TWO CHELSEA STRAWBERRY-LEAF MOULDED SAUCEBOATS, CIRCA 1755
Auction Closed
December 11, 04:05 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
TWO CHELSEA STRAWBERRY-LEAF MOULDED SAUCEBOATS, CIRCA 1755
typically modelled with crabstock handles, painted in green and yellow enamels with blue flower terminals, the fluted leaf-shaped body moulded with strawberry tendrils painted with scattered flower sprigs, insects and centipedes below a brown rim, red anchor marks
‘Spetchley Park -I. Worcestershire, The Seat of Mr. R. V. Berkeley', Country Life, 8 July 1916, p. 46, illustrated in the cabinet in the Drawing Room;
Inventory, 1949, 'A pair of Chelsea leaf shaped sauce boats, decorated sprays of flowers, red Anchor mark' in the Drawing Room