CIRCA 1729

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AN EARLY ARMORIAL BASKET
Circa 1729
With a large coat-of-arms of Brydges, Duke of Chandos, impaling Willoughby and Middleton in the center below clumps of flowers in Chinese Imari colors, the crest repeated on the fluted exterior between further flowers and narrow iron-red patterned borders
11¼in. (28.5cm.) wide

Lot Essay

Made for James Brydges whose second wife, Cassandra, was the daughter of Francis Willoughby and sister of the first Lord Middleton. Known as 'Princely Chandos' he was advanced to the Dukedom in 1729. D.S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, pp. 115 and 181, illustrates a basket and a cistern from the Bullivant collection, and cites other pieces of this famous service in the Tudor Craig collection, the Crisp sale and the Quennell sale

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