One pleasing feature is the fact that Mr. Sprimont made a handsome fortune by his skill and industry as a director. During his time, it is said that “the china was in such repute as to be sold by auction, and as a set was purchased as soon as baked, dealers were surrounding the doors for that purpose.” This fanciful scene of competing dealers striving to secure a specimen of Chelsea almost before it was cooled from the furnace is too picturesque to be literally true. We reproduce a figure of a carpenter, eight inches high, coloured, marked with anchor in red (p. 29). This specimen of Chelsea is now at the Bethnal Green Museum. We give an illustration of a beautifully decorated vase in the collection at the British Museum, representing the Death of Cleopatra. The French style of design is singularly evident in this example (p. 31). [Illustration: CHELSEA FIGURE. Aquatic bird preening his plumage.] [Illustration: CHELSEA FIGURE. Marked with anchor in red. (Height, 8 inches.)] [Illustration: CHELSEA FIGURE. Marked with raised anchor painted red. (Height, 6-1/2 inches.)] Of the marks on Chelsea china, it may be observed that the earlier specimens, in the days when they imitated blue and white Oriental models, are unmarked. Later the anchor appears, embossed in a raised oval, impressed on the bottom of the piece, and bearing the anchor in relief. Various forms of the anchor are used, and in varying colours, apparently according to the caprice of the workman, who drew it with his hair-pencil. Red is the colour most commonly used, and the best pieces are mostly marked in gold, with the anchor more carefully drawn. [Illustration: (In gold on best pieces). (Mark on milk jugs in form of goat). Chelsea 1745 (Earliest dated example) [Chelsea Marks].] Specimens with the double anchors are very valuable, as this was a mark only used on very high-class pieces. The triangle is one of the marks of Bow, and the little milk-jugs in the form of a goat, decorated with raised flowers, were attributed to Bow, on account of this mark, but the last mark we give shows beyond dispute that the triangle was also used as a Chelsea mark.