Lot 112
112
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL OVAL BOMBE TUREEN AND COVER with everted branch handles enamelled on either side with a coat-of-arms surmounted by a crest and surrounded by fronds and flowers above a band of spear-heads at the foot, the shallow domed cover similarly decorated above a garland of bamboo at the rim and surmounted with a lingzhi finial (gilt rubbed), circa 1755

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A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL OVAL BOMBE TUREEN AND COVER with everted branch handles enamelled on either side with a coat-of-arms surmounted by a crest and surrounded by fronds and flowers above a band of spear-heads at the foot, the shallow domed cover similarly decorated above a garland of bamboo at the rim and surmounted with a lingzhi finial (gilt rubbed), circa 1755
37.8cm. wide

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Hall. Cf. D. S. Howard, op. cit., p. 384 where the author suggests that this service was probably ordered through the Swedish East India Company and was probably made for John Hall, or his son Robert, who lived in Gothenburg

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