A rare Chelsea saucer dish

A rare Chelsea spirally fluted saucer dish, finely painted in coloured enamels with a bold leaf and a cut nut, a flower spray, and scattered flowers and leaves, beneath a brown line rim, the underside moulded with spiralling strawberry leaves, picked out in bright green, yellow and puce, 8" diameter, circa 1754, red anchor mark

See William King, Chelsea Porcelain, plate 20, figure 2 for a trio in this model, then in the Dr and Mrs Bellamy Gardner Collection 
 

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