A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL OCTAGONAL DEEP PLATES, each enamelled at the centre with a pair of phoenix perched on rockwork issuing peony-sprays, within a spear-head band at the well, within flower-clusters at the border, a crest surmounted by the motto turris prudentia gustos at the well and border (rim fritted, one with two rim chips), Qianlong

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL OCTAGONAL DEEP PLATES, each enamelled at the centre with a pair of phoenix perched on rockwork issuing peony-sprays, within a spear-head band at the well, within flower-clusters at the border, a crest surmounted by the motto turris prudentia gustos at the well and border (rim fritted, one with two rim chips), Qianlong
22cm. wide (2)

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Lauder. cf. D.S. Howard, op. cit., p.130, K5

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