A rare Chelsea group of dancers

A rare Chelsea group of dancers, standing, arm-in-arm, facing in opposite directions, she with flowers in her hair, her bodice with blue ribbons and puce skirt, and her with flower adorned wide brimmed hat, blue coat and black breeches, his left arm raised, and flanking a flower and leaf applied tree-stump, on mound base, 7 1/4" high, circa 1755, red anchor mark

See Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea and Other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamels in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, plates 32 and 33, Figure 37, for a similar group
The Chelsea Auction Catalogue, March 24th 1755, lot 15 lists 'A curious groupe (sic) of a man and woman dancing'

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