Fine Pottery & Porcelain - 21st February 2023

Lot 821

A rare Chelsea dessert plate

Estimate £250 - £350 | Hammer £220

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Description

A rare Chelsea dessert plate, c.1752-58, richly decorated in the Imari palette with the Brocade pattern, with sprays of flowering chrysanthemum to the well, the cavetto and rim with a wide panelled border of prunus sprays and hatched designs beneath floating chrysanthemum mons, and a Chelsea octagonal soup plate, moulded and painted with flower sprays, a few small rim chips, 25cm max. (2)

Provenance: the David Stopher Collection.