Lot Essay
The arms are those of Dundas
Details
A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL OCTAGONAL PLATTER
QIANLONG, CIRCA 1750
Painted with a central coat-of-arms within feathery mantling below a helmet and lion head crest and the motto "Essayez", the flat everted rim with suspended floral garlands, above a chain-patterned band at the well (fritting)--18¼in. (46.5cm.) wide
QIANLONG, CIRCA 1750
Painted with a central coat-of-arms within feathery mantling below a helmet and lion head crest and the motto "Essayez", the flat everted rim with suspended floral garlands, above a chain-patterned band at the well (fritting)--18¼in. (46.5cm.) wide
Provenance
Elinor Gordon, Villanova, Pennsylvania