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porcelain
Markings
The Anchor and the Bow: Chelsea Porcelain Marks, 1745 to 1769
A small Chelsea cup, decorated with a kingfisher on a branch, was offered at Bonhams last March with a presale estimate of seven hundred pounds. The single mark on its underside — a small red anchor, no more than three millimetres tall — pushed the eventual hammer price to eleven thousand.
Markings
Porcelain Marks: Meissen, Sèvres, and Worcester, Compared
Three porcelain plates lie side by side on a felt-covered table in Hester Lloyd's office in Hudson, New York. The first carries crossed swords in underglaze blue. The second, two interlaced Ls. The third, a crescent moon. Each mark is older than two centuries.