A CHELSEA BOWL with slightly flared rim, painted with five naked iron-red putti, one with a basket of grapes and another with a bunch of grapes, playing on a rocky grassy sward beside a tree-stump with blue mountains in the distance and a flock of birds above, the reverse with a bouquet and scattered flowers beneath a chocolate line rim, red anchor mark, circa 1755

A CHELSEA BOWL with slightly flared rim, painted with five naked iron-red putti, one with a basket of grapes and another with a bunch of grapes, playing on a rocky grassy sward beside a tree-stump with blue mountains in the distance and a flock of birds above, the reverse with a bouquet and scattered flowers beneath a chocolate line rim, red anchor mark, circa 1755

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Bunford Collection

Lot Essay

A saucer-dish from this service was exhibited at the E.C.C. Exhibition (1948), pl. 49, no. 234 and subsequently sold in these Rooms on 2 November 1981, lot 153. Cf. the pair of teabowls and trembleuse saucers from the Rous Lench Collection sold in these Rooms on 30 May 1990, lots 331 and 332 and John C. Austin, Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg, no. 91 for another teabowl and saucer, also from this service

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