ARMORIAL PORCELAIN
A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PLATES

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PLATES
QIANLONG, CIRCA 1755

Each painted in the center with fruit and flower-filled basket below coat-of-arms divided by grisaille cartouches on a bianco-sopra-bianco ground at the rim (one with restored rim, the other with small chips, star crack)--9in. (23cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Thornhill

Cf. Sale, Christie's New York, November 7, 1984, lot 90 for a similar example