CIRCA 1740-50

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A BLUE, WHITE AND GILT ARMORIAL PLATE FOR THE PORTUGUESE MARKET
Circa 1740-50
Painted and gilt with a central coat-of-arms, ecclesiastical hat suspending tassels within an oval cartouche, below dart-pattern in the well and four-petalled flower heads at the wavy rim
9 in. (23 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

The arms are probably those of Dom Luis de Castelo Branco Correia e Cunha (1683-1749), 4th Count of Pombeiro, who pursued an ecclesiastical career for much of his life. See N. de Castro, Chinese Porcelain and the Heraldry of the Empire, Opporto, 1988, p.84, for a tureen and cover. This service has been at times wrongly attributed to having been made for Dom Alberto da Silva, Archbishop of Goa, but Mr. de Castro explains that this is not possible since Dom Alberto da Silva died in 1688 and also his arms should be depicted in silver with a purple lion. A plate from the Mottahedeh Collection is illustrated by D. S. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol.II, p.382, no.376; and a vegetable tureen and cover is illustrated by M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, p.176, cat.118.

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