A rare Chelsea plate

A rare Chelsea plate, unusually painted in coloured enamels with a naturalistic bird, probably a Brambling, perched on a tree-stump, and with scattered flowers, the border painted with three sprays of flowers and leaves, within scroll moulded cartouches, alternating with basket moulded panels, the barbed border with brown line rim, 9 1/2" diameter, circa 1755, red anchor mark

Provenance; With Albert Amor
                     With Robyn Robb

See F S Mackenna, Chelsea Porcelain, The Red Anchor Wares, plate 23, number 48, for a scroll moulded plate of this period, also painted with a naturalistic bird 

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