A fine Chelsea two handled cup and cover

A fine Chelsea straight sided cup and domed cover, with two loop handles and loop scroll knop, very finely painted in coloured enamels with a lady in Turkish costume, holding a fan, and a young man playing a violin, each seated in a garden, and flanked by birds in branches, the cover painted with a young boy and girl, within gilt flower, leaf and 'C' scroll cartouches, on a blue ground, gilt line and dentil borders, 5 1/2" high, circa 1762, gold anchor mark

Provenance; Hugh Langmead Collection

Exhibited; Albert Amor, Chelsea Porcelain, A Private Collection, Part IV, 2019, number 13

See The National Gallery of Victoria, Flowers and Fables Exhibition, 1984, number 184, for a cup of this form, but lacking the cover 

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