Mario Buatta: Prince of Interiors
Mario Buatta: Prince of Interiors
A CHELSEA 'HANS SLOANE' OVAL PLATTER, CIRCA 1755
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January 25, 03:59 AM GMT
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2,000 - 3,000 USD
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A CHELSEA 'HANS SLOANE' OVAL PLATTER, CIRCA 1755
painted with a branch issuing a large leaf and two bunches of grapes, and a gourd plant with several growing fruits, scattered with various insects, brown-edged rim, red anchor mark
width 14 ½ in.
36.6 cm
Sotheby's New York, 22 April 1983, lot 353
A dish of this form and size, painted with the same design though with red-grapes is illustrated in the Brian Haughton Gallery catalogue, Nature, Porcelain and Enlightenment, p. 51. A slightly smaller dish of this form (13 in. wide), painted with a Calceolus, Lady's Slipper, from the Collection of the 6th Earl of Clanwilliam, is illustrated in Sally Kevill-Davies, Sir Hans Sloane's Plants on Chelsea Porcelain, exh. cat., p. 98-99, no. 20. See p. 222-223, no. 76 for a plate painted with the same subject and the associated image sources