An extremely rare Chelsea saucer

An extremely rare Chelsea saucer, brilliantly painted in coloured enamels, probably by Joseph Duvivier, with two young boys in a garden, one playing a tambourine, flanked by a gpdog on its hind legs, a parrot perched on puce scrolls and a bird on a branch, above puce scrolls, in the manner of Hubert- Francois Gravelot, the blue ground border with three rectangular panels of birds in flight, within gilt diaper and leaf scrolls, gilt dentil rim, 4 3/4" diameter, circa 1758-60, no mark

Two Chelsea plates painted after Gravelot are in the Victoria and Albert Museum 

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