Lot Essay
The arms are those of Sharpe impaling Wyman. See D.S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, p. 285, nr. G1.
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CIRCA 1740
Details
A Chinese famille rose and gilt armorial plate for the English market
Circa 1740
Decorated to the central medallion with a pair of birds in a garden landscape, the well and rim with an accolé coat-of-arms with a lion's head crest and feathery mantling, the rim further enamelled with landscape panels, fine glaze cracks
23 cm. diam.
Circa 1740
Decorated to the central medallion with a pair of birds in a garden landscape, the well and rim with an accolé coat-of-arms with a lion's head crest and feathery mantling, the rim further enamelled with landscape panels, fine glaze cracks
23 cm. diam.
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