A Chelsea claret-ground lobed circular plate

CIRCA 1760, GOLD ANCHOR MARK

Details

A Chelsea claret-ground lobed circular plate
Circa 1760, gold anchor mark
The centre painted with an exotic bird perched upon a flowering gilt branch, within a shaped claret border gilt with flowering branches edged with moulded turquoise and gilt foliage, within a gilt feather-moulded rim (rubbing to gilding and claret border)
8 5/8in. (22cm.) wide

Provenance

Blenheim Palace collection, perhaps the third portion of the Duke of Marlborough's property, Sale in these Rooms on 7-9 August 1886, lot 843.

Lot Essay

Cf. the similar service from the collection of Major the Hon. Sir Edward Cadogan sold in these Rooms on 17 December 1956, lot 41; see also F. Severne Mackenna, Chelsea Porcelain, The Gold Anchor Wares (1952), pl. 14, no. 26.

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