TWO CHELSEA 'HANS SLOANE' PLATES, CIRCA 1755

TWO CHELSEA 'HANS SLOANE' PLATES, CIRCA 1755

one painted with a branch with two large pomegranates, the other with a branch of blue flowers and a fruiting branch, probably figs, each with scattered insects, brown-edged rims, anchor marks in dark purple
diameters 8½ in.
21.7 cm

Condition Report:
Each plate is intact without restoration.
Some wear to brown enamels on rims. The plate with two large pomegranates with a shallow rim chip 0.4 cm wide and a small faint hairline crack to rim, 0.5 cm long. Some scattered surface scratching.

Provenance:
James Lewis and Son, New York, bearing labels