A SET OF SIX BLUE AND WHITE ARMORIAL PLATES, each decorated in pencil style with a central floral roundel within a band of trellis-pattern divided by Buddhist-emblem cartouches and chrysanthemum -heads in the well, the border painted with three flower-sprays and enamelled with a coat-of-arms (rim chips), Qianlong
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A SET OF SIX BLUE AND WHITE ARMORIAL PLATES, each decorated in pencil style with a central floral roundel within a band of trellis-pattern divided by Buddhist-emblem cartouches and chrysanthemum -heads in the well, the border painted with three flower-sprays and enamelled with a coat-of-arms (rim chips), Qianlong
23cm. diam. (6)
Lot Essay
The arms are those of Pott, of Bentham Hill, co. Kent, and in pretence those of Trosse, of Trevollard, St. Stephen's, co. Cornwall, anciently of Devon. Cf.'Burke's General Armory', pp. 816 and 1032.