Lot Essay
The arms are those of Gibson impaling Green. See D.S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, p. 233.
QIANLONG
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A pair of famille rose armorial plates
Qianlong
Enamelled to the centre with a coat-of-arms surmounted by a closed helmet and a crane holding a twig in its beak, surrounded by feathery mantling, the flat everted rim with three cartouches enclosing respectively peony, daisies and chrysanthemum, reserved on a pink trellis pattern ground (one with rim crack and small loss to the enamel, minor frittings)
22.8 cm. diam. (2)
Qianlong
Enamelled to the centre with a coat-of-arms surmounted by a closed helmet and a crane holding a twig in its beak, surrounded by feathery mantling, the flat everted rim with three cartouches enclosing respectively peony, daisies and chrysanthemum, reserved on a pink trellis pattern ground (one with rim crack and small loss to the enamel, minor frittings)
22.8 cm. diam. (2)