A fine Chelsea coloured `Goat and Bee` jug
Probably modelled by Nicholas Sprimont, the branch handle painted in shades of brown and applied with naturalistically coloured oak leaves, the lower section finely modelled with two recumbent goats seated nose to tail, their shaggy coats with black patches. A realistic modelled and coloured bee is resting on a flowering plant, the flowerheads in red, blue, pink and yellow. The jug is painted with colourful star shaped flowers, a butterfly and a ladybird, the rim with brown line.

Circa 1745-47.
Ht. 4 1/4 inches
incised triangle mark.

Coloured 'Goat and Bee' jugs are much rarer than white versions. Various examples are illustrated in the literature, including, Flowers and Fables (1984), p 25, fig 3, For other examples see John C. Austin, Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg (1977), p 24, fig 6, and in the F.S.Mackenna Collection of English Porcelain, Part 1 (1972), p 60, fig 19.
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