Lot Essay
The arms are those of MacDonald accolle with Forbes (?), see D.S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, 1974, London, p.279
CIRCA 1795
Details
An enamelled armorial egg-cup
Circa 1795
Painted with an accolle coat-of-arms surmounted by a helmet and tree, inscribed in a banderole below Per Mare Per Terras, the reverse with an arm holding a cross above the motto Nectempore Neofato', encircled around the rim with vine tied with a ribbon at the front
7.1 cm. high
Circa 1795
Painted with an accolle coat-of-arms surmounted by a helmet and tree, inscribed in a banderole below Per Mare Per Terras, the reverse with an arm holding a cross above the motto Nectempore Neofato', encircled around the rim with vine tied with a ribbon at the front
7.1 cm. high