
A Fine Chelsea Octagonal Deep Soup Plate, Circa 1752
A Fine Chelsea Octagonal Deep Soup Plate, beautifully decorated in the Japanese Kakiemon palette with a Ho Ho bird perched high up on a holed blue rock between sprays of flowering peony that issue on each side, an iron red Pheonix bird in flight overhead, within a border of scrolling iron red foliage and stylised red and gold mons
Marks:
Small red anchor to the underside.
Provenance
Private English Collection, Dr F. S. Mackenna Collection, no. 490.
Illustrated in Apollo July 1944.