A Chelsea heart shaped dish

A Chelsea heart shaped dish, finely painted in coloured enamels in 'Hans Sloane' style with a purple flower spray, an Acacia leaf, a caterpillar, a ladybird and three winged insects, brown line rim, 10 1/2" wide, circa 1756, tiny red anchor mark

Provenance; American Private Collection 

See Sally Kevill-Davies, Sir Hans Sloane's Plants on Chelsea Porcelain, page 62, for a drawing relating to the Acacia  leaf on this dish 

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