A Chelsea teabowl and saucer, circa 1770


Of deep fluted form, painted in bright colours with flowering stems in botanical style, within gilt dentil rims, saucer 12.9cm diam, red anchor mark (2)
|The porcelain appears to date from the gold anchor period and the use of a red anchor mark is thus confusing. It seems likely the mark was used by an outside decorator in the 1770s or 1780s. Two similar saucers are at Williamsburg, illustrated in the catalogue at p.93, fig.83