AN OCTAGONAL ARMORIAL PLATE

CIRCA 1750

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AN OCTAGONAL ARMORIAL PLATE
Circa 1750
The center with the arms of Chase within gilt rococo scrollwork flanked by flowering boughs, gilt spearhead on the well and the rim with a distinctive cell diaper pattern of blue and iron-red flowerheads linked by blue-green lattice and gilt squares
9.1/8in. (23.2cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

D.S. Howard, op. cit., p. 259 illustrates a Chase platter from the Bullivant collection and notes that the service was made for Sir Richard Chase, Sheriff of Essex in 1744, whose distant relative, also entitled to these arms, was Samuel Chase, the Declaration of Independence signer.

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