A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PLATE enamelled with a central coat-of-arms surrounded by two entwined branches and surmounted by a coronet, all within a band of flower-heads in the well, the border with four sprays of hibiscus divided by flaming pearls (one minute rim frit, blue enamels partly rubbed), circa 1733 | Christie's

Lot 142

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A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PLATE enamelled with a central coat-of-arms surrounded by two entwined branches and surmounted by a coronet, all within a band of flower-heads in the well, the border with four sprays of hibiscus divided by flaming pearls (one minute rim frit, blue enamels partly rubbed), circa 1733

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A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PLATE enamelled with a central coat-of-arms surrounded by two entwined branches and surmounted by a coronet, all within a band of flower-heads in the well, the border with four sprays of hibiscus divided by flaming pearls (one minute rim frit, blue enamels partly rubbed), circa 1733
22.2cm. diam.

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Höpken of Sweden. Cf. D. Howard and J. Ayers, op.cit., p. 446

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