A rare Chelsea coffee cup and saucer

A rare Chelsea bell shaped coffee cup and saucer, the cup with green glazed stalk loop handle, with applied flower and leaf terminals, finely painted in coloured enamels, the cup with two naked children in a garden, the saucer with two cupids amidst Cloud scrolls, one firing a bow, brown line rims, circa 1755, red anchor marks

See The Rous Lench Collection, Christies, London, 29th and 30th May 1990, lots 331 and 332, for two trembleuse tea bowls and saucers similarly decorated. A saucer dish with this rare decoration was exhibited E C C Loan Exhibition, 1948, number 234 

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