A Chelsea saucer dish

A Chelsea saucer dish, finely painted in coloured enamels with a Chinese couple, seated, flanked by birds in berried branches, within a gilt flower, leaf and trellis cartouche, on a claret ground, 7 1/4" diameter, circa 1762-65, gold anchor mark

Provenance; Major J C Bulteel Collection
                     Hugh Langmead Collection
                     The Collection of a Gentleman

Exhibited; Albert Amor, Chelsea Porcelain, 2019, number 30

See Elizabeth Adams, Chelsea Porcelain, figure 11.13, for pieces from the celebrated Thomson tea service in the Victoria and Albert Museum, of exactly this form and decoration 

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