Two Bow saucer dishes, a Chelsea plate and a platter, circa 1755-58 Each finely painted to the centres with colourful sprays and scattered sprigs of flowers, with brown line rims, the saucer dishes with deep fluted borders mirroring the lobed rims, one also painted with insects in flight, 23.5cm and 24cm diam, the plate with an exuberant scroll-moulded border reserved with three panels of flowers edged in puce, 21.7cm diam, red anchor mark, the serving dish or platter of 'Warren Hastings' type, the rococo style scrolling border finely painted with four landscape vignettes with Watteau-esque figures amongst trees, within scroll moulded panels outlined in puce and flanked by diaper pattern sections, the centre also with insects including a caterpillar, 33.8cm wide, red anchor mark (4) Footnotes: Provenance Christie's, 5 December 1994, lot 43 (Bow saucer dishes) Anton Gabszewicz Collection The Bow saucer dishes are painted in Chelsea style and present an interesting comparison to the contemporary Chelsea pieces in this lot. A similar Chelsea plate is illustrated by F Severne Mackenna, The F S Mackenna Collection of English Porcelain, Part 1 (1972), no.45 and a similar serving dish was sold by Bonhams on 22 June 2022, lot 351. Sir Warren Hastings and the Chelsea porcelain service bearing his name are discussed by Rosalie Sharp, Ceramics Ethics and Scandal (2002), pp.246-7. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing