Am important Chelsea leaf shaped sauce boat

An important Chelsea leaf shaped sauce boat, the stalk loop handle entwined with strawberries, blossom and leaves, the interior very finely painted in coloured enamels with an arrangement of flowers and leaves in a wicker basket, a ladybird and other winged insects, on four strawberry moulded short feet, linked by relief moulded strawberries, blossom and tendrils, brown line rim, 6 1/4" long, circa 1750~52, raised anchor mark on a pad 

Provenance; An old English Private Collection

We can find no record of another raised anchor marked example of this famous Chelsea model in our archive. This model is normally associated with the Red Anchor period, so the discovery of this earlier marked example in an important addition to Chelsea scholarship 

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