A rare Chelsea Derby sauce tureen and cover

A rare Chelsea Derby oval sauce tureen and cover, with two scroll handles and loop knop, painted in coloured enamels with garlanded vases, flowers and leaves, within blue ground borders with gilt vine garlands, the interior painted with flowers, 7 1/4" wide, circa 1775, gold anchor mark

Provenance: The Hon Alastair Morrison Collection

See Stephen Mitchell, The Marks on Chelsea Derby, Plate 18, figure iii(a), where the author suggests the decoration is by an independent atelier 

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