Lot 190
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A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PLATE, painted in the centre with a coat-of-arms with helmet within feathery mantling, surrounded by a trellis-pattern on rose-ground medallion, in the well four flower-sprays and a horned crown, the rim with trellis-border and four cartouches (frittings and crack), Qianlong; and an enamelled armorial plate, in the centre with crested coat-of-arms within feathery mantling and flanked by a lion rampant and a reclining lion, on the rim three flower-sprays and a border of spearheads (fritted), Qianlong

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A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PLATE, painted in the centre with a coat-of-arms with helmet within feathery mantling, surrounded by a trellis-pattern on rose-ground medallion, in the well four flower-sprays and a horned crown, the rim with trellis-border and four cartouches (frittings and crack), Qianlong; and an enamelled armorial plate, in the centre with crested coat-of-arms within feathery mantling and flanked by a lion rampant and a reclining lion, on the rim three flower-sprays and a border of spearheads (fritted), Qianlong
21.5cm. and 23cm. (2)

Lot Essay

The arms of the first plate are those of the Dutch family Swellengrebel, possibly of Hendrik Swellengrebel, governor of Cape of Good Hope 1739-1751

cf. J.B. Rietstap, Armorial Général, p.873

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