Two Chelsea plates circa 1758-65

comprising: an octagonal plate painted with scattered flower sprigs and insects within and around a flowerhead-and-diaper-molded rim and a plate painted in the center with flower sprays, the gilt-heightened, foliate scroll-molded rim with bird vignettes, the first with iron-red anchor mark, the second with gold anchor mark.

Red anchor plate: some overall speckling to the glaze but in otherwise generally good condition. Gold anchor plate: a haircrack extending from the rim edge to the footrim; a fine forked haircrack running from within the footrim to the rim edge; several short fine hair- or hair/glaze-cracks in the cavetto; overall crazing and some discolored crazing to the glaze; some wear to the gilding of the rim edge.
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