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A pair of Imari armorial dishes
CIRCA 1715
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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)
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Christie's charges a Buyer's premium calculated at 23.205% of the hammer price for each lot with a value up to €110,000. If the hammer price of a lot exceeds €110,000 then the premium for the lot is calculated at 23.205% of the first €110,000 plus 11.9% of any amount in excess of €110,000. Buyer's Premium is calculated on this basis for each lot individually.
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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