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CIRCA 1753-55, RED ANCHOR MARKS
Details
Two Chelsea Kakiemon shaped oval dishes
Circa 1753-55, red anchor marks
Painted with an insect in flight above flowering shrubs issuing from blue and turquoise rockwork within a border of four trailing flower-sprays divided by four insects, within a shaped brown-line rim ( the smaller with rubbing to brown rim and slight wear to glaze)
12½ in. (31.8 cm.) and 12¼ in. (31.1 cm.) wide (2)
Circa 1753-55, red anchor marks
Painted with an insect in flight above flowering shrubs issuing from blue and turquoise rockwork within a border of four trailing flower-sprays divided by four insects, within a shaped brown-line rim ( the smaller with rubbing to brown rim and slight wear to glaze)
12½ in. (31.8 cm.) and 12¼ in. (31.1 cm.) wide (2)
Provenance
Almost certainly purchased by Thomas, 2nd Marquess of Bath (1765-1837), Longleat, Wiltshire and by descent at Longleat.
Special notice
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