Lot Essay
Made for John Elwick of Mile End and Cornhill, a director of the East India Company from 1713-20. See D.S. Howard, op. cit., p. 234
.jpg?w=1)
CIRCA 1730
Details
AN ARMORIAL PLATE
Circa 1730
With the arms of Elwick in grisaille, gilt, iron-red and blue enamel in a panel against a grisaille Chinese riverscape showing scholars in a villa compound and small boats on the water, all within a cell border edged ins croll bands and interrupted by four landscape panels, the top one also with the crest of Elwick
9.1/8in. (23.2cm.) diam.
Circa 1730
With the arms of Elwick in grisaille, gilt, iron-red and blue enamel in a panel against a grisaille Chinese riverscape showing scholars in a villa compound and small boats on the water, all within a cell border edged ins croll bands and interrupted by four landscape panels, the top one also with the crest of Elwick
9.1/8in. (23.2cm.) diam.