AN OCTAGONAL ARMORIAL PLATTER

CIRCA 1750

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AN OCTAGONAL ARMORIAL PLATTER
Circa 1750
The arms of Chase in the center edged in gilt scrollwork issuing blossoms, gilt spearhead on the well and the rim with a distinctive cell pattern border of blue and iron-red flowerheads linked by blue green lattice and gilt fretwork squares
13in. (33cm.) wide

Lot Essay

D.S. Howard, op. cit., p. 259 illustrates a Chase platter from the Bullivant collection and notes that the service was made for Sir Richard Chase, Sheriff of Essex in 1744, whose distant relative, also entitled to these arms, was Samuel Chase, a signer of the Declaration of Independence

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