A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL SAUCER-DISH

CIRCA 1740

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A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL SAUCER-DISH
circa 1740
Delicately enamelled at the centre with an iron-red, gilt, blue and white enamel coat-of-arms and helmet, below a gilt scroll band in the well and an ornate du Paquier-style border
8 in. (22.2 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Pedro Alvarez de Abreu e Sousa, captain-major in India, and grandson of Joo da Silva e Sousa, Governor of Angola and Rio de Janeiro. See N. de Castro, Chinese Porcelain and the Heraldry of the Empire, 1988, p.145, where a slightly later date for this service is suggested.

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