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Lot 62

A Chelsea plate
Circa 1752-58.

8 April 2009, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £900 inc. premium

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A Chelsea plate

Circa 1752-58.
With lobed rim, painted and gilt in the Imari palette in the 'Brocade' pattern, with a spray of chrysanthemum within a border of alternate panels of flowering plants and diaper pattern reserved with mons, the reverse with a blue roundel and three flower sprays, 24.3cm diam, underglaze blue anchor mark (very minor rubbing to enamels and gilding)

Footnotes

See John C.Austin, Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg (1977), p 69, fig 50 for another example, described in the 1756 catalogue as 'rare (or fine) old japan pattern blue and gold', the shapes as 'scollp'd'

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