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High Jar
ca. 1758-1769
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
The mark used on Chelsea porcelain from 1758 to 1769 was a gold anchor. Objects from this period are commonly called gold-anchor wares. This high jar not only has a gold anchor on its base, but also a rare gold letter, "I." It may be the initial of the painter or gilder who decorated the jar, or it could be a Roman numeral indicating the jar was one of a pair. The birds and trees were painted by Jeffreyes Hammet O'Neale.
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- Title: High Jar
- Creator: Chelsea Porcelain Factory (English, active ca. 1745-1784)
- Date Created: ca. 1758-1769
- External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
- Roles: Manufacturer: Chelsea Porcelain Factory (English, active ca. 1745-1784)
- Provenance: Castle of Herrenhausen, near Hanover [said to have been stolen from there in 1848]; George R. Harding, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
- Object Type: jars
- Medium: soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions: 22 1/2 in. (57.2 cm)
- Credit Line: Acquired by Henry Walters, 1911
- Classification: Ceramics
- Accession Number: 48.774
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