A rare Chelsea tea bowl and saucer

A rare Chelsea botanical fluted tea bowl and saucer, superbly painted in coloured enamels with Physalis Peruviana, or Cape Gooseberry, within gilt dentil rims, circa 1758, red anchor marks

Provenance; With Brian Haughton, 2004

See John C Austin, Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg, plate 83, for a pair of saucers painted by this hand 

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