THREE CHELSEA KAKIEMON DISHES
CIRCA 1755, RED ANCHOR MARK TO THE SOUP PLATE
Each painted in the Gelbe Löwe pattern popularized at Meissen with a tiger circling a bamboo tree at the left, flowering chrysanthemum issuing from banded hedges at the right, the border of the soup plate painted with trailing flowers and with 'Three Friends' within rocaille-molded cartouches alternate with diaper-pattern panels and trailing vine, shaped brown line rim, the pentafoil borders of the two dessert plates with narrow bands of iron-red trailing flowering vine, dark red line rims
9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm.) diameter, the soup plate; 9 in. diam. (22.8 cm.) diameter, the dessert plates (3)
THREE CHELSEA KAKIEMON DISHES
CIRCA 1755, RED ANCHOR MARK TO THE SOUP PLATE
Each painted in the Gelbe Löwe pattern popularized at Meissen with a tiger circling a bamboo tree at the left, flowering chrysanthemum issuing from banded hedges at the right, the border of the soup plate painted with trailing flowers and with 'Three Friends' within rocaille-molded cartouches alternate with diaper-pattern panels and trailing vine, shaped brown line rim, the pentafoil borders of the two dessert plates with narrow bands of iron-red trailing flowering vine, dark red line rims
9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm.) diameter, the soup plate; 9 in. diam. (22.8 cm.) diameter, the dessert plates (3)
