A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL OCTAGONAL SOUP-PLATES painted with a central flower-spray beneath an elaborate coat-of-arms surmounted by a crest and above the motto Fortitudo, dividing a band of gilt chain-pattern at the well, the border with leaf, shell and European scroll-pattern (small rim chips), circa 1755 | Christie's

Lot 33

A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL OCTAGONAL SOUP-PLATES painted with a central flower-spray beneath an elaborate coat-of-arms surmounted by a crest and above the motto Fortitudo, dividing a band of gilt chain-pattern at the well, the border with leaf, shell and European scroll-pattern (small rim chips), circa 1755

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL OCTAGONAL SOUP-PLATES painted with a central flower-spray beneath an elaborate coat-of-arms surmounted by a crest and above the motto Fortitudo, dividing a band of gilt chain-pattern at the well, the border with leaf, shell and European scroll-pattern (small rim chips), circa 1755
21.4cm. wide (2)

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Archer impaling Meares. Cf.D.S.Howard, op.cit., p.362 where an identical octagonal plate from the Phil. Cooke Collection is illustrated, and colour plate on p.134.

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