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Lot 14 Dα

A Chelsea porcelain coffee pot

Auction 1102 - overview Cologne
16.11.2017, 11:00 - The Klaus J. Jacobs Collection
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 35.100 € (incl. premium)
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A Chelsea porcelain coffee pot

The porcelain slightly greenish-yellow and with numerous inclusions. Of bulbous form with rounded handles, pointed spout and lid and applied throughout with flowering cherry boughs. Incised triangle mark. Restored cracks. H 22.6 cm.
1744 - 49.

Nicholas Sprimont, co-founder of the Chelsea factory, was born in Liège in 1716 to a Hugenot goldsmith family and enjoyed a career typical of the era. He was sworn as a goldsmith in London in 1741, but began experimenting with and producing porcelain in Chelsea in 1741, apparently without full knowledge of its composition, as his early mass was not true porcelain but a porcelain-like clay. This coffee pot is one of the manufactory's rare early porcelain pieces, displaying an unmistakable similarity to his works in silver.

Provenance

Purchased from the Antique Porcelain Company, London.

Literature

An identical coffee pot in the Victoria and Albert Museum London, inv. no. C.221&A-1940.