MAINLY 18TH CENTURY

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An assorted lot of six armorial and seven blue and white dishes
Mainly 18th Century
Comprising a pair of Imari armorial plates with a coat-of-arms attributed to Van Gellicum, 22 cm. diam.; a famille rose flower-shaped soup-plate and saucer dish, the coat-of-arms of MacGregor, 22- 23 cm. diam.; a plate with an openwork trellis pattern rim surrounding a small central coat-of-arms, 22 cm. diam.; an armorial enamelled plate, 22.5 cm. diam.; a pair of blue and white 'dragon' dishes, Jiajing seal mark and of the period, 25 cm. diam.; a powder blue dish, 17 cm. diam.; a pair of Japanese saucers, 17 cm. diam.; and two saucer dishes, 16 and 21.5 cm. diam., some damages and restoration (13)

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Lot Essay

See for a similar example of the first coat-of-arms C.J. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1997, p.302, pl.353, where it is stated that the identification of these arms is questionable, but they are usually attributed to the Dutch family Van Gellicum.
The second coat-of-arms belongs to the British family MacGregor, see D.S.Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, 1974, p.385.

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