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Of octagonal form, finely painted in the manner of Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale in puce monochrome with European figures in landscape and sprays of flowers, the saucer with two figures approaching a small church on a mound, the teabowl with a rider on horseback conversing with a finely dressed couple, two dogs keeping watch by classical ruins, an insect to the interior of the teabowl, with brown line rims, saucer 11cm wide, red anchor marks (2)
Footnotes
Provenance
Margaret Warburton Collection;
Robert Hill Collection;
With Simon Spero, 2018
Literature
White, Mary, Drinking at the Whites' House, Vol.2, 2021, p.306, fig.a
Although there are many stylistic similarities, Mary White discusses why this is unlikely to be by O'Neale's hand. See also Mary White's, 'Luxury porcelain decoration in London 1750-55: O'Neale and London Ateliers', , Vol.30, 2019, p.38, where figures painted in puce in classical landscapes are attributable to O'Neale.
The present lot relates more closely to a saucer illustrated by Anton Gabszewicz and Errol Manners, 2007, item.23. The authors suggest that the painter responsible was another skilled artist at the Chelsea factory, perhaps one of the Duviviers.