
Two Chelsea family groups, circa 1755-56 One after Teniers, modelled as a mother seated with a child on her lap, a boy standing beside her, the father seated on a chair to their left, the other modelled as a seated mother nursing a baby, a small boy seated on the ground beside her with a bowl of porridge in his lap, the father seated on an upturned tub to their right, a barrel between his legs upon which rests his pipe and a small coin purse, both on rococo scroll bases applied with leaves and flowers and picked out in gold, 13cm and 12.5cm high, red anchor marks (2) Footnotes: The first mentioned group is after a Meissen original, see the Meissen example from the Brigitte Britzke Collection sold by Bonhams on 14 December 2016, lot 116. A similar family group to the second mentioned was sold by Christie's New York on 27 October 2015, lot 110 and is illustrated by Yvonne Hackenbroch, Catalogue of the Irwin Untermyer Collection (1957), col. pl.37, fig.51, where the author highlights the rarity of figures with glazed bases but unglazed rims during the Red Anchor period. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing































