AN EXPORT ARMORIAL TEABOWL AND SAUCER for the Dutch market enamelled with a central coat-of-arms surmounted by a coronet and flanked on either side by grasses and four birds in flight, all beneath gilt floral cartouches on a trellis-pattern band at the border, circa 1730-1740; and a famille rose armorial teabowl and saucer with a coat-of-arms surmounted by a crest and three fish and surrounded by feathery fronds (cup rim nibbled), circa 1735 (2) | Christie's

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AN EXPORT ARMORIAL TEABOWL AND SAUCER for the Dutch market enamelled with a central coat-of-arms surmounted by a coronet and flanked on either side by grasses and four birds in flight, all beneath gilt floral cartouches on a trellis-pattern band at the border, circa 1730-1740; and a famille rose armorial teabowl and saucer with a coat-of-arms surmounted by a crest and three fish and surrounded by feathery fronds (cup rim nibbled), circa 1735 (2)

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AN EXPORT ARMORIAL TEABOWL AND SAUCER for the Dutch market enamelled with a central coat-of-arms surmounted by a coronet and flanked on either side by grasses and four birds in flight, all beneath gilt floral cartouches on a trellis-pattern band at the border, circa 1730-1740; and a famille rose armorial teabowl and saucer with a coat-of-arms surmounted by a crest and three fish and surrounded by feathery fronds (cup rim nibbled), circa 1735 (2)

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The arms on the first are those of van Hoorhn. Cf. J. B. Rietstap, op. cit., vol. I, p. 984.
The arms on the second are those of Meyen of Utrecht. Cf. J. B. Rietstap, op. cit., vol. II, p. 215

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