CIRCA 1720,

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A CHINESE IMARI ARMORIAL PLATE,
Circa 1720,
With the arms of Boone at the bottom rim showing the elephant tusk and cap out of a ducal coronet crest, all below a field of leafy sprigs of peony, chrysanthemum and lily in Chinese Imari colors, the back with two sketchily painted blossoming boughs
8 5/8in. (21.9cm.) diam.

Special notice

This lot has no reserve.

Lot Essay

Five services were made for the Boone family, this one and one other probably for Charles Boone, Governor of Bombay from 1716 to 1720 and a director of the East India Co. 1729 to 1735. See D.S. Howard, op. cit., p. 942

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