Lot 140
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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PLATES, each enamelled at the centre with a coat-of-arms surmounted at the border with a crest dividing butterflies in flight amongst peony sprays above pagodas and pavilions within a walled enclosure on the remainder of the border and in the well (rubbed), circa 1735

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PLATES, each enamelled at the centre with a coat-of-arms surmounted at the border with a crest dividing butterflies in flight amongst peony sprays above pagodas and pavilions within a walled enclosure on the remainder of the border and in the well (rubbed), circa 1735
22.7cm. diam. (2)

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Gresley quarterly with Bowyer in pretence. Cf. D. S. Howard, op. cit., p. 330, where the author illustrates a Derby replacement plate made between 1811 and 1848. There are also some Worcester replacements known, made about 1770

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