An Extremely Rare Pair of Chelsea Dishes

Each dish painted with famille rose enamels in imitation of Chinese porcelain.

Decorated in the centre within a gilded cartouche with a bird perched on a flowering tree growing among rocks

Surrounded by more flowering plants

With a narrow rim with a lobed edge painted with floral sprays in five compartments separated by diaper ornament on a turquoise ground.

Chelsea Late Raised Anchor C1752-53

Diameter: 7″ (17.8 cm)

Condition: some crazing

Star crack to base of first dish stabilised

Second dish with a shallow rim chip 1.6 x 0.7 cm filled and associated 4.0cm hairline to rim

See Victoria and Albert Museum, C.247-1935 for a similar dish bequeathed by Herbert Allen

Simon Spero Winter Newsletter January 2008 p11 for a similar dish