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A Chelsea blue-ground vase
of swollen form, painted with exotic birds among foliage within a rocaille-scroll-bordered shaped panel reserved on a blue-ground gilt to the reverse with insects -- 7¼in. (18.5cm.) high, circa 1752-6 (hairline cracks, wear to gilt, footrim chip, slight bubbling to glaze)
See colour plate II
of swollen form, painted with exotic birds among foliage within a rocaille-scroll-bordered shaped panel reserved on a blue-ground gilt to the reverse with insects -- 7¼in. (18.5cm.) high, circa 1752-6 (hairline cracks, wear to gilt, footrim chip, slight bubbling to glaze)
See colour plate II