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A very fine and rare Chelsea ‘Goat & Bee’ jug, the slender pear-shaped body moulded and sculpted on either side of the base with recumbent horned goats amongst vegetation. Beneath the irregular peach-shaped spout and applied to the shoulder of the jug sits a bee, its legs and wings carefully modelled, the applied oak twig handle with naturalistic oak leaves.

Circa: 1745-49

Height: 4 3/16 ins (10.7 cm)

Mark: The incised triangle mark

For an example incised ‘Chelsea’ and dated ‘1745’ see ‘Eighteenth Century English Porcelain from the British Museum’, exhib. Catalogue at the International Ceramics Fair, London , June 1987, p.5 no. 1. This piece has its roots within the silver produced by Nicholas Sprimont prior to the start of the Chelsea porcelain manufactory. See the Victoria & Albert Museum example of the Ashburnham centrepiece made by Sprimont, the design incorporates 2 recumbent goats. It is also tantalising to see two symbols sometimes associated with Jacobite significance, the bee below the spout and the oak leaves at the handle. Even the dated example from the British museum bearing ‘1745’ recalls the Second Jacobite uprising which was put down so ruthlessly at Culloden during that year by the Duke of Cumberland. It is however ironic that the Duke of Cumberland is reputed to have had an involvement in the Chelsea factory.

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