A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL DISH

CIRCA 1720

Details

A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL DISH
circa 1720
Enamelled to the centre with a large coat-of-arms flanked by two lions above a banner inscribed AMSTELDAM [sic] within an architectural frame adorned with two slender female figures, all enclosed by a trellis-pattern band at the well painted in underglaze blue and reserved with small shrimp and goldfish medallions, the wide rim with a similar blue ground reserved with larger cartouches alternately enclosing a lady resting by the waterside and flowering prunus branches
18 in. (45 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Duc de X....; purchased Palais Galliera, Paris, 27 June 1969.

Lot Essay

See footnote to previous lot.

An almost identical dish is in the Hodroff Collection, illustrated by David S. Howard, op.cit., 1994, no.24.

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