A Chelsea plate

Provenance:
English Private Collection 

A Chelsea plate, finely painted in coloured enamels with two cut pomegranates on a branch, a caterpillar, butterflies and other insects, within a gilt roundel, the blue ground border with birds on branches and in flight, within three gilt flower, leaf and trellis cartouches, gilt dentil rim, 8 1/4" diameter, circa 1765-68, gold anchor mark 

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