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Of silver-shape, painted in enamel colours with a full spray of Achillea or 'Sneezewort', a single floret, a leaf and a butterfly and second insects in amongst the foliage, the rim edged in brown, 20.8cm diam, red anchor mark
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Literature
Kevill-Davis, Sally, Sir Hans Sloane's Plants on Chelsea Porcelain, 2015, pp.68-69;
White, Mary, Eating at the Whites' House, Vol.3, 2022, p.254-55, fig.a
The source for this specimen is taken from Philip Miller, Figures of the most Beautiful, Useful and Uncommon Plants, Vol.1, 1755, pl.IX. Miller notes that of the eight kinds of Achillea, this variety is known as 'Eastern Sneezewort...with hoary tansey leaves and a golden flower.'