Lot Essay
The arms are those of Scholten, of Amsterdam, impaling Hogenberg; cf. J.B. Rietstap, pp.721 & 969. A plate from this rare service was sold in these Rooms, 24 February 1969, lot 114
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A LARGE ROSE-VERTE ARMORIAL DISH
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Enamelled and gilt at the centre with a circular coat-of-arms within leafy mantling, below four cartouches enclosing scholar's utensils reserved on a cell-pattern ground at the well and bells and vessels issuing lingzhi before flowering peony and prunus branches at the border, cracks
18in. (45.5cm.) diam.
yongzheng
Enamelled and gilt at the centre with a circular coat-of-arms within leafy mantling, below four cartouches enclosing scholar's utensils reserved on a cell-pattern ground at the well and bells and vessels issuing lingzhi before flowering peony and prunus branches at the border, cracks
18in. (45.5cm.) diam.