A Chelsea blue-ground and gilt plate, circa 1765, painted with panels of floral sprays and gilt on the blue ground with exotic birds, gold anchor mark, 24cm diameterNote: This plate is similarly moulded and shares characteristics with the Mecklenburg-Strelitz service ordered in 1762 by His Majesty King George III and Queen Charlotte for her brother Duke Adolph Frederick IV of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, part of which is to be found at Buckingham Palace. Other versions of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz pattern were produced at Chelsea.Cf. The Victoria and Albert Meum catalogue, Rococo, fig. O.39. and Elizabeth Adams, Chelsea Porcelain, first edn., pl. 126.