A famille rose and underglaze blue and white armorial plate

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A famille rose and underglaze blue and white armorial plate
decorated with a central crest flanked by two gentlemen holding swords above the motto 'Chase' within a border of trailing, fruiting vine, the border with an arm in armour holding a dart -- 11in. (28cms) diam, Qianlong, (cracked).
See Colour Plate 5.

The arms are of Warren of Ireland. See 'Chinese Armorial Porcelain', D.S Howard, page 278.

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