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Lot 62
A Chelsea plate Circa 1752-58.
8 April 2009, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £900 inc. premium
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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)
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'
