Lot 23 , A rare pair of Chelsea Hans Sloane style silver-shape dishes

A rare pair of Chelsea Hans Sloane style silver-shape dishes, c.1758,
each painted with botanical specimens of fruiting branches or vines, the silver-shape dishes picked out with a brown line to the edges, brown anchor mark, 24.5cm wide

cf. British Museum, London for a Hans Sloane style dish, accession no. 1959,1102.137, of identical shape but slightly smaller. They state ‘The shape of this dish is after a silver shape created by the proprietor of the Chelsea porcelain manufactory and a silversmith Nicholas Sprimont. The shape is rarely decorated with the so-called 'Hans Sloane' botanical pattern, so may be an experimental design or made as a serving dish’.
£1,200-1,800

Sold for £2,200