Group
Chelsea Porcelain Factory (1744-1769)
Category
Ceramics
Date
1755
Materials
Soft paste porcelain
Measurements
180 x 130 x 88 mm
Place of origin
Chelsea
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 205094
Summary
Chelsea group of Dutch or Tyrolean dancers after a Meissen original by Johann Friedrich Eberlein (1695-1749), soft-paste porcelain, red anchor mark, c.1755. Note: There is an important collection of Dutch Dancers on loan from the Lord and Lady Fisher at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. See Mackenna, Chelsea Porcelain, The Red Anchor Wares, plate 138. For the engraving of the dancing peasants upon which may be based see Chilton, Harlequin plate 220.
Provenance
Part of the Bambridge Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1976 by Mrs Elsie Bambridge (1896-1976)
Makers and roles
Chelsea Porcelain Factory (1744-1769), china manufacturer