CIRCA 1760, GOLD ANCHOR MARKS

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Two Chelsea dishes
Circa 1760, gold anchor marks
Each painted to the centre with loose bouquets of flowers and scattered sprigs, with gilt feuilles-de-choux wells, the borders painted with birds among leafy branches and moulded and gilt with C-scrolls and foliage (one dish with a firing crack to rim which extends in to a crack and with a lesser crack to the border and a small rim chip, both with some minor rubbing to the gilding and surface wear)
9 in. (22.9 cm.) wide (2)

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Lot Essay

Cf. a large oval serving-dish from this service sold in these Rooms, 11 March 1996, lot 32; four further soup-plates and a circular serving-dish from Clonbrock House, Galway were sold by Christie's, sale on the premises, 2nd November 1976, lots 756, 751, and 757.

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