A PORTUGESE MARKET ARMORIAL PLATE

CIRCA 1765

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A PORTUGESE MARKET ARMORIAL PLATE
Circa 1765
Finely painted in vivid enamel colors with fruit, vegetables, fish, game and fowl around a harvest wreath encircling a leg of mutton, the rim with floral festoons between fishing and hunting vignettes and inscribed SALDANHA DE ALBUQUERQUE around the coat-of-arms
9.1/8in. (23.2cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

From the famous service made for Dom Gaspar de Saldanha e Albuquerque, Rector of the University of Coimbra, Prelate of the Church of Lisbon, Judge and son of a Governor and Captain-General of Rio de Janeiro. See N. de Castro, op. cit., p. 105.