TWO CHINESE ARMORIAL DISHES FOR THE IRISH MARKET

QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1790 AND CIRCA 1785

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TWO CHINESE ARMORIAL DISHES FOR THE IRISH MARKET
QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1790 AND CIRCA 1785
The oval dish enamelled in the famille rose palette with the arms of Roche of Trabulcan, surrounded by two diaper-bands in underglaze blue; the blue and white plate decorated with the arms of Caulfeild, Earl of Charlemont, with the chain of the Order of St. Patrick encircling the rim
The dish - 11½ in. (29 cm.) wide (2)

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James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont (1728-1799), was the first President and a founding member of the Royal Irish Academy. Charlemont was a patron of the architect Sir William Chambers, and commissioned the famous medal cabinet for Charlemont House in Dublin, which is now in the Courtauld Institute, Somerset House.

For the arms of both dishes, see D. S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, pp. 604 and 713.

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