A FINE IMARI ARMORIAL DISH decorated in iron-red and gilt on underglaze blue, the shallow depression containing a heraldic shield with cresting, the wide rim decorated with four roundels, each containing sprays of stylised flowers divided by a baroque design of scrolling flowerheads and foliage and scattered birds, putti-like figures emerging from stylised clouds beneath two of the roundels, gilt rims (some restoration), early 18th Century

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A FINE IMARI ARMORIAL DISH decorated in iron-red and gilt on underglaze blue, the shallow depression containing a heraldic shield with cresting, the wide rim decorated with four roundels, each containing sprays of stylised flowers divided by a baroque design of scrolling flowerheads and foliage and scattered birds, putti-like figures emerging from stylised clouds beneath two of the roundels, gilt rims (some restoration), early 18th Century

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A similar one was sold in these Rooms on 28 October 1987, lot 131

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