A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PLATES, each painted to the centre with a large coat-of-arms surmounted by a crest, and surrounded by feathery fronds, the border decorated with the cyphers M L O divided by further crests on a ground of flower-sprays (one cracked and chipped), circa 1743 | Christie's

Lot 36

A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PLATES, each painted to the centre with a large coat-of-arms surmounted by a crest, and surrounded by feathery fronds, the border decorated with the cyphers M L O divided by further crests on a ground of flower-sprays (one cracked and chipped), circa 1743

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PLATES, each painted to the centre with a large coat-of-arms surmounted by a crest, and surrounded by feathery fronds, the border decorated with the cyphers M L O divided by further crests on a ground of flower-sprays (one cracked and chipped), circa 1743
22.9cm. diam. (2)

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Okeover quarterly impaling Nichol. Cf.D.S.Howard, op.cit., p.398 and colour frontispiece.

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