Another curious fact which may interest and encourage us in these "trading-times" is, that the proprietors of the Chelsea works were then obliged to protest and petition against the smuggling of French and Dresden porcelain into England _for sale_ in quantities, under the cover of the ministers' privilege to import for their own use. So, if all the men in the days of our fathers were brave, they certainly were not all honest. At the sale of the Bernal[16] collection, in 1855, some Chelsea china sold as follows: A pair of beautiful globular scalloped vases and covers, deep blue, painted with exotic buds, with pierced borders and covers of the highest quality £110 5_s._ A cup and saucer, with festoons in raised white (chipped) 1 1_s._ Another, with flowers and crimson drapery edges 3 A beautiful two-handled cup and saucer, with medallions of Cupids in pink, and striped gold sides 21 Mr. Marryat mentions the sale of some "Chelsea" in 1865: At Lord Cardogan's sale, a pair of vases, painted with exotic buds on gold ground 60 guineas. A two-handled vase, open-work back and cover painted with flowers, on a gold ground, seventeen inches high 250 guineas. A fine figure of a female holding a branch, a lion at her feet, penciled in gold 100 guineas. Fifteen plates of old Chelsea, blue and gold, fetched £150 There are but few examples of Bow and Chelsea in this country. Mr. Prime, and Mr. Barlow, of New York, I am told, have some pieces. Mr. Wales has a bowl, and cup and saucer, in very rich, warm colors, being designs from china, which are no doubt Chelsea, and excellent work. They are shown in Fig. 148, on the right-hand corner, but this cannot, of course, give any idea of the fine coloring. [Illustration: FIG. 148.--_English Porcelain._] Marks of Chelsea porcelain: [Illustration]