A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE PSEUDO ARMORIAL SHAPED OVAL DISHES

CIRCA 1760

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE PSEUDO ARMORIAL SHAPED OVAL DISHES
circa 1760
Each enamelled with a central shell-shaped shield, one enclosing en grisaille a putti being followed by a multi-headed large bird above the motto NEMO AME ARRIPIET, the other enclosing tall flowers growing from a shaped flower-bed above the motto HINC STUDIIS ALIMENTA MEIS, each within scattered flower sprays and fruiting and flowering sprays in cartouches over a floral slip-moulded ground, rim frits
11½ in. (29 cm.) wide (2)

Lot Essay

This service was inspired by a Meissen pattern of 1757, but the inspiration of the cartouches with all different vignettes and mottos is unknown. A very large part of this service was owned by Major General Sir George Burns, and was sold at his home, North Mymms Park, Christie's, 24 September 1979, lots 743-801. He may well have inherited the service from his great-uncle, Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. A strainer and dish from this service is in the Hodroff Collection, and is illustrated by David S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, 1994, no.139, pp.132 and 133.

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