A PORTUGESE MARKET ARMORIAL SAUCER DISH

CIRCA 1775

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A PORTUGESE MARKET ARMORIAL SAUCER DISH
Circa 1775
Of barbed and lobed outline and enamelled with garlands of pink and yellow roses, the top rim painted with the arms of Meneses, Noronha, Coutinho in a rich famille rose palette beneath a coronet, the center with a loose bouquet of leafy peony and chrysanthemum
9 5/8in. (24.4cm.)

Lot Essay

A salt of this service was sold in an anon. sale, Christie's New York 23 January 2001, lot 54. See also N. de Castro, op. cit., for a history of Dom Diogo José Vito de Meneses Noronha Coutinho (1739-1803), who ordered this service and later accompanied Princess Maria Leopoldina to Brazil for her wedding to Dom Pedro I of Portugal and Brazil

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