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A PORTUGUESE MARKET IRON-RED AND GILT ARMORIAL SAUCER
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A PORTUGUESE MARKET IRON-RED AND GILT ARMORIAL SAUCER

CIRCA 1880

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A PORTUGUESE MARKET IRON-RED AND GILT ARMORIAL SAUCER
Circa 1880
The centre enamelled with a coat-of-arms and the inscription PALACIO DO GOVERNO DE MACAU in a roundel, surrounded by a densely decorated border of exotic birds among peony and bamboo
6¼ in. (16 cm.) diam.
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Lot Essay

The arms are those of King Dom Luís I (1838-1889), 21st King of Portugal who reigned from 1861-1889. This was one of four Chinese services made for the King in circa 1880. See N. de Castro, Chinese Porcelain and the Heraldry of the Empire, Opporto, 1988, p. 244 for a vegetable tureen and cover from the Jorge Veiga Collection. A plate from this service is in the MacCann Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, p. 186, cat. 159.

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