Lot Essay
The arms are almost certainly those of Child. See D. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, Oxford, 1974, p. 178, fig. B3.
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CIRCA 1715
Details
A pair of Imari armorial dishes
CIRCA 1715
Painted in underglaze-blue, iron-red and gilt with a meander of scrolling flower-heads and foliage, interrupted at the top of the rim with a coat-of-arms of a leopard's face between laurel branches
36 cm. diam. (2)
CIRCA 1715
Painted in underglaze-blue, iron-red and gilt with a meander of scrolling flower-heads and foliage, interrupted at the top of the rim with a coat-of-arms of a leopard's face between laurel branches
36 cm. diam. (2)
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