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A pair of famille rose and underglaze blue armorial octagonal plates
painted and gilt with central crests bearing the motto 'Perge Mereri' beneath mounted crosses, within borders of spearhead and hatch pattern -- 9½in. (24cms) wide, Qianlong, (both with small chips to underside of rims, one with further small rim chip).
See Colour Plate 7.
The arms are of Meriton. See 'Chinese Armorial Porcelain', D.S Howard, page 729. (2)
painted and gilt with central crests bearing the motto 'Perge Mereri' beneath mounted crosses, within borders of spearhead and hatch pattern -- 9½in. (24cms) wide, Qianlong, (both with small chips to underside of rims, one with further small rim chip).
See Colour Plate 7.
The arms are of Meriton. See 'Chinese Armorial Porcelain', D.S Howard, page 729. (2)