Chelsea porcelain: Quick Facts

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Chelsea soft-paste porcelain vase in the French Rococo style of Sèvres ware with “mazarin blue” ground and a “reserve” panel painting by John Donaldson (after François Boucher), gold anchor mark, c. 1763; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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