A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PLATES

CIRCA 1745

细节

A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PLATES
circa 1745
Enamelled and gilt in the Meissen style with a coat-of-arms at one side of the border flanked by leafy fronds below a crest and motto Decus Summum Virtus (sic) at the opposite border, the centre with a quatrefoil panel enclosing buildings and a figure beside a canal, between two cartouches at the border depicting ships at sea, small rim chips and frits
9in. (23cm.) diam. (2)

拍品专文

The arms are those of Holburne of Menstrie, Baronets of Nova Scotia. Cf. D. S. Howard, op.cit., p.325, and D. S. Howard and J. Ayers, op.cit., vol.I, p.203, no.202, where the author says this service was probably made for Captain, later Admiral, Sir Francis Holburne; a plate from this service was sold in these Rooms, 24 February 1969, lot 108; another, formerly in the Bullivant Collection, was sold in London 22 March 1988, lot 209; and several pieces from this service are in the Holburne of Menstrie Museum in Bath.

The central panel depicts a view of Fort St.George at Madras, the border cartouche on the left Plymouth Sound and the cartouche on the right the anchorage in the Pearl River