A RARE FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL SAUCE-BOAT

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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL SAUCE-BOAT
circa 1800

Applied with a gilt double-loop handle, the spout enamelled with a coat-of-arms, supporters, coronet and motto A D'Araujo, the rim decorated in sepia and blue enamels with a band of shaped cartouches of a riverscape, deer, birds, a dog and a farmer in landscape
7¼in. (18.5cm.) wide

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The arms are those of the first and only Count of Barca, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister of War, Councillor of State, Prime Minister, Minister of Marine in Brazil in 1814, founder of the Academy of Fine Arts in Brazil, scientist and author, born in Portugal in 1754, died in Brazil in 1817. Cf. N. de Castro, op. cit., p. 185, for a tureen from the same service

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