A fine Chelsea ‘silver shape’ dish

A fine Chelsea 'silver shape' dish, painted in Japanese Kakiemon style with the Red Tiger and Dragon pattern, the dragon entwined around a bamboo stem, 9 1/2" wide, circa 1750-52, remains of raised anchor mark pad beneath one handle 

See F S Mackenna, Chelsea Porcelain, The Triangle and Raised Anchor Wares, plate 19, figure 43, for a similar dish. See also Elizabeth Adams, Chelsea Porcelain, page 74, figure 60, for a 'silver shape' plate in this pattern, then with Albert Amor 

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