A CHINESE IMARI ARMORIAL PLATE

CIRCA 1720

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A CHINESE IMARI ARMORIAL PLATE
Circa 1720
The center filled with a formal arrangement of peony, chrysanthemum, pansies and daisies in gilt, iron-red and underglaze blue, repeated along the rim with the arms of Talbot at the top, the reverse decorated iwth two prunus boughs
9in. (24.7cm.) diameter

Provenance

The Lucile and Robert H. Gries Charity Fund
The Western Reserve Historical Society

Lot Essay

From a service made for the Rt. Revd. William Talbot, Bishop of Salisbury and later Durham, whose 1705 blue and white service was one of the early English market dinner services. See D.S. Howard, op. cit., pp. 164 and 940.

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