拍品 78
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A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PLATE, enamelled with a coat-of-arms flanked by Neptune figures supporting a crown and above two lions, the well with iron-red and gilt spear-heads below flowersprays at the border (cracked), Qianlong

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A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PLATE, enamelled with a coat-of-arms flanked by Neptune figures supporting a crown and above two lions, the well with iron-red and gilt spear-heads below flowersprays at the border (cracked), Qianlong
23cm. diam.

拍品專文

Cf. The plate comes from the Royal House of Germany: Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and belong to Karl, 1735-1780. It is more than likely that he ordered several plates like this if he was indeed 'aping the glories of Versailles'. The crown and the cross suggest that he was a prince of the Holy Roman Empire although there is no record of him being so in the book and the connection remains uncertain.