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Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

About 1770

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Large, deep creamware charger painted in bright enamel colors in shades of yellow, green, brown, and blue, the front rim edged in yellow and the center with a scene that extends to the rim of Mercury floating from above, his right arm outstretched, towards a seated Paris, who extends his left arm with hand open to receive the Apple of Discord, on the right a seated puma looks on, in a rocky landscape with trees and a river edge in foreground; the reverse decorated with a band of zigzags in browns and blues interspersed with yellow and green circular motifs, with a green band and a blue band within which the artist's monogram, date 1858, and the inscription MERCVRIO presenta il pumo a PARIDE.
Urn-shaped creamware vase with two ear-shaped handles and long neck (the cover is missing), glazed light brown with a band of yellow around the foot, each of the reserves, on either side of the handles, at the shoulder, and neck, each band is outlined in red; on either side of the body is a central oval reserve, each decorated with the image of a winged cherub, on one side partially draped and sitting in a landscape with fruit, on the other aloft in a blue cloudy sky with a dove, each handle terminates in a female mask.
Hollow lamp or candelabrum drum of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration of four small scenes including the Three Graces, Apollo, Nike or Nemesis at an altar, and an unidentified scene of a seated woman on a pedestal with a man making an offering, at the top a double band of oak leaves.
Tall, urn-shaped vase of white stoneware covered with a green variegated glaze and resting on a small, square white stoneware plinth with diaper pattern around, the round foot with overlapping leaves and band of beading at the joint, the lower body with a band of stiff leaf motifs, with a wavescroll pattern below the shoulder and two long curved handles, the elongated neck likewise with band of stiff leaf motifs and beading, the cover with band of leaves and mushroom finial.