A Chelsea white crayfish salt

CIRCA 1745-9, INCISED TRIANGLE MARK

细节

A Chelsea white crayfish salt
Circa 1745-9, incised triangle mark
After the silver-gilt model by Nicholas Sprimont, the crayfish with one claw resting on a shell-moulded dish, on a rockwork base applied with further shells, corals and seaweed (restorations to shell, crayfish and base, chipping to extremities)
4½ in. (11 cm.) wide

拍品专文

Cf. the examples sold in these Rooms on 28 June 1993, lot 246 and from the Rous Lench Collection, 30 May 1990, lot 316. A coloured example from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Raison was sold on 20 October 1986, lot 135.

For a discussion of the original silver prototypes by Nicholas Sprimont (c. 1716-71) see John C. Austin, Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg (1977), pp. 26-7, nos. 7 & 8.