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AN ARMORIAL PLATE

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AN ARMORIAL PLATE
CIRCA 1720

Painted in the center with the arms of Carter in underglaze blue, iron-red and gilt and with the lion's head crest on the rim, the well and rim with iron-red and gilt cell and diaper trellis patterns surrounding famille-verte flowering branches and landscape vignettes that include touches of a muddy pink, the reverse with three flowering branches in iron-red (several chips to underside)--8 7/8in. (22.5cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Howard illustrates a plate from this service, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, p. 196, and another in colour, p. 118, and suggests that it was made for the Rt. Hon. Thomas Carter, a Secretary of State and a Privy Councillor.