AN INITIALLED FAMILLE ROSE OYSTER DISH

MID-18TH CENTURY

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AN INITIALLED FAMILLE ROSE OYSTER DISH
MID-18TH CENTURY
In the interior Neptune and a sea nymph support the initialled shields and hold a coronet, opposite them a cloud-shaped Masonic (?) panel of a rayed triangle over a bird in landscape, four shell feet
12 7/8 in. (32.7 cm.) wide

Lot Essay

Howard & Ayers, op. cit., p. 398, illustrate a saucer with this same device but different cyphers and note that porcelain in this pattern was ordered by the Scandinavian, Dutch and even English trading companies.

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