Chelsea Model of a Finch perched in a tree, Circa 1745-49
Height: 7 ½ ins. (19cms.)
Item No. 1236
An extremely rare and highly important Early Chelsea Model of a Finch perched on a branch, of the Incised Triangle Period, modelled perched on an Oak tree amongst oak leaves...
An extremely rare and highly important Early Chelsea Model of a Finch perched on a branch, of the Incised Triangle Period, modelled perched on an Oak tree amongst oak leaves and trailing branches, the feathers beautifully crafted with careful details, the head with an alert expression.
Provenance
Formerly Thomas Burn, the Rous Lench Collection, Worcestershire.Exhibitions
Chelsea China Exhibition, Royal Hospital Chelsea, 1951, no. 22Literature
Frank Tilley, ‘The Clue of the Oak Leaf: Its place in Identifying Unrecorded Triangle Period Chelsea’, Antique Collector, January-February 1950, pp. 13-15 and Arthur Lane and Robert Charleston ‘Girl in a Swing Porcelain and Chelsea’, E.C.C. Trans, vol. 5, pt.3, pp.119 and 120.Join our mailing list
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