Lot Essay
This pair was part of the fifth service, from a group of seven services and closely related individual orders, all made for Dom Luis Peregrino de Ataide (1700-1758), all in variations on this bold, baroque style, one initialled LA. Ataide, 10th Count of Atouguia, was a counselor to Joao V and 6th Viceroy of Brazil. See N. de Castro, Chinese Porcelain and the Heraldry of the Empire, Opporto 1988, p. 57