A rare Chelsea dish, circa 1752


With famille rose decoration, the rim with six simple lobes and a border of light turquoise-blue diaper bands alternating with half-flower panels, painted with peony and poppy flowers alternating with fantastic butterflies around a central gold and enamelled flowerhead, 21.2cm diam
|A very similar dish with a petal shaped rim is in the British Museum, illustrated by Elizabeth Adams, Chelsea Porcelain (2001), p.84, fig.7.22.