Lot 127
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A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL SAUCE-BOAT after a European silver original for the German market, enamelled around the exterior with three coats-of-arms in the forms of cherubs in different attitudes surrounded by fronds and surmounted by coronets, divided by further cherubs with their hands raised, all within blue enamel bands, the centre of the interior with a further coat-of-arms (fritted), Qianlong

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A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL SAUCE-BOAT after a European silver original for the German market, enamelled around the exterior with three coats-of-arms in the forms of cherubs in different attitudes surrounded by fronds and surmounted by coronets, divided by further cherubs with their hands raised, all within blue enamel bands, the centre of the interior with a further coat-of-arms (fritted), Qianlong
23.5cm. wide

Lot Essay

The arms are probably those of Bucholtz of Brandenburg. Cf. J. B. Rietstap, op. cit., vol. I, p. 325. A similarly decorated coffee-pot and cover in the British Museum is illustrated by F. et. N. Hervouet et Y. Bruneau, op. cit., p. 321, no. 13.102

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