A pair of Chelsea finger bowls and stands circa 1755

each finger bowl painted with colorful butterflies and scattered insects, the stands with either a butterfly or dragonfly and scattered insects and sprigs, the stands with red anchor marks.

Bowls: both with some minor occasional speckling to the glaze and minor rubbing to the enamel of the rim edge. One is in otherwise generally good condition; the other has four minor small chips to the rim, 4cm, 2cm and two pinhead-sized, Stands: one has a haircrack running across the rim and down into the cavetto; the other is in generally good condition apart from a small misfired and discolored firing fault on the underside of the rim that could be mistaken for a restored chip.
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