Lot 42
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A RARE CHINESE IMARI ARMORIAL EWER AND COVER

CIRCA 1720

Details
A RARE CHINESE IMARI ARMORIAL EWER AND COVER
circa 1720
Painted front and back with the arms of Ataide beneath a coronet and within scrollwork supporting baskets of flowers, a gilt scroll and shell border at the rim and the spout laced with bamboo and vine
13¼in. (33.6cm.) high

Lot Essay

From a group of seven services and closely related individual orders made for Dom Luis Peregrino de Ataide (1700-58) in variations on this bold, baroque style, one initialled LA. The attenuated form of this example is based on a Middle Eastern silver prototype. Ataide, tenth Count of Atouguia, was a councillor to King Joao V, Governor and Captain-General of the Algarve, and sixth Viceroy of Brazil (1749-55). See N. de Castro, Chinese Porcelain and the Heraldry of the Empire , p. 61.