A PAIR OF CANTON FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL DINNER PLATES

CIRCA 1845

细节
A PAIR OF CANTON FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL DINNER PLATES
circa 1845
Each with 'rose Mandarin' decoration enclosing a coronet and the inscription Exmo Sor Marques de Almendares
9¾in. (24.7cm.) diam. (2)
来源
Joao de Bianchi, a Portugese ambassador to China and to the United States

拍品专文

From a service made for the Cuban Marquis de Almendares Ignacio Herrera, enobled in 1842. Owner of coffee and sugar plantations, railroads and textile mills, Herrera hailed from an exalted Spanish family. See H., P. and N. Schiffer, China for America, Export Porcelain of the 18th and 19th Centuries, p. 184.