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© Grayson Perry courtesy of the artist and the Victoria Miro gallery. Photo: Digital Photographic Services
© Grayson Perry courtesy of the artist and the Victoria Miro gallery. Photo: Digital Photographic Services

The Chelmsford Sissies

Grayson Perry

Art Funded
2004
Dimensions
Height: 65 cm; diameter: 39 cm
Vendor
Grayson Perry
The pot depicts a fictional transvestite festival in Chelmsford based on the real story of the Chelmsford Sissies.

Sir Thomas Sissye was a Royalist who surrendered his band to Roundhead troops in 1648. As a humiliation Sissye and his men were forced to parade through Chelmsford wearing women's dress. Perry's alternative history is both wishful and celebratory. The transfer prints on the side refer to the expanding housing estates around the town.

Provenance

The artist.

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Art we’ve helped buy at Chelmsford Museum and the Essex Regiment Museum

Two staters of Addedomarus
 Acquired 1993
Two Ashbins
 Acquired 2001
The Good Easter Hoard
 Acquired 1999
The Chelmsford Sissies
 Acquired 2004
Tall Flattened Pot with Lines & Lustre Pot with Extended Rim & Leaning Lustre Bottle
 Acquired 1996
Refugee Children
 Acquired 2011
Portrait of Juliana Waltersdorff as Mrs Cornelius Kortright of Hylands, Essex
 Acquired 2002
Portrait of Juliana Margaretta Waltersdorff, Mrs Cornelius Kortright of Hylands, Essex
 Acquired 2001
Pond at Beslyns, Great Bardfield
 Acquired 1992
Peasant Fare
 Acquired 2009
Mount
 Acquired 2008
Landscape at Wormingford & Wormingford Mill & The Pond at Bottengoms
 Acquired 1992
Jewellery hoard
 Acquired 2007
Contained Maze
 Acquired 2007
32 pots
 Acquired 2004
1) Seascape 1; 2) Untitled (Reflections)
 Acquired 2009
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