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CIRCA 1760, FIVE WITH GOLD ANCHOR MARKS
Details
Six Chelsea blue-ground plates
Circa 1760, five with gold anchor marks
Similarly decorated to the preceding, three with exotic birds in a landscape with boulders and three with songbirds perched in a tree, within circular gilt scroll and ogival arch cartouches, the border with scrolling foliage and within shaped gilt dentil rims (two of the first with a rim chip, the last with chipped footrim, all with some rubbing to gilding of wells and rims)
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) diam. (6)
Circa 1760, five with gold anchor marks
Similarly decorated to the preceding, three with exotic birds in a landscape with boulders and three with songbirds perched in a tree, within circular gilt scroll and ogival arch cartouches, the border with scrolling foliage and within shaped gilt dentil rims (two of the first with a rim chip, the last with chipped footrim, all with some rubbing to gilding of wells and rims)
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) diam. (6)
Provenance
Thomas, 2nd Marquess of Bath (1765-1837), Longleat, Wiltshire and by descent at Longleat.
Literature
1869 Inventory, 'Fourteen old Chelsea plates deep blue with insects in gold and exotic birds in colours in medallions'.
1896 Inventory (2nd Marquess' Heirloons).
1896 Inventory (2nd Marquess' Heirloons).
Special notice
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