THREE FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PLATES AND A MEISSEN STYLE PLATE

CIRCA 1735-50

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THREE FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PLATES AND A MEISSEN STYLE PLATE
circa 1735-50
Each armorial plate enamelled with a central coat-of-arms and variously surrounded by shell-scroll, floral and diaper and sprays of bamboo, finger citrus and iris, the Meissen style plate with a central cartouche depicting figures on a riverside promontory outside a church
all about 9 in. (23 cm.) diam. (4)

Sale room notice

Plate on right in illustration bears the arms of Papworth impaling Best. See D. S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, p.246.

Lot Essay

The armorial dish, centre in the illustration, possibly bears the arms of Jones. See D. S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, 1974, p.365, where a date of circa 1750 is suggested. The plate with sprays of bamboo, finger citrus and iris at the border bears the arms of Newton with Alleyne in pretence. See D. S. Howard, ibid., 1974, p.296, where a date of circa 1745 is suggested. A similar plate is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, no.51.86.235, Wingfield Bequest, formerly in the McCann Collection.

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