ARMORIAL PORCELAIN
A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL OBLONG OCTAGONAL TUREEN, COVER AND STAND, enamelled with an accollée coat-of-arms above the motto Nobilis Est Ira Leones and surmounted by a crest surrounded by butterflies and flower-sprays, the well, foot and cover with a band of iron-red and gilt chain-pattern, the tureen with two gilt animal-head handles and the cover surmounted by a pomegranate finial (handles and finial fritted), circa 1755

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A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL OBLONG OCTAGONAL TUREEN, COVER AND STAND, enamelled with an accollée coat-of-arms above the motto Nobilis Est Ira Leones and surmounted by a crest surrounded by butterflies and flower-sprays, the well, foot and cover with a band of iron-red and gilt chain-pattern, the tureen with two gilt animal-head handles and the cover surmounted by a pomegranate finial (handles and finial fritted), circa 1755
the stand 37cm. wide

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Ross with Porterfield (?).Cf.D.S.Howard, op.cit., p.563

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