Lot 113
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A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL FOLIATE PART DINNER-SERVICE comprising an oval dish, four soup-plates, a plate and three small dishes, each enamelled with a central pastoral scene depicting the Valentine pattern, a pair of love birds perched on Cupid's quiver beside dogs beneath a peach tree, the border with a coat-of-arms surmounted by a crest and above the motto Persue dividing scattered flower-sprays (one small dish repaired, some cracks and chips), circa 1750

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A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL FOLIATE PART DINNER-SERVICE comprising an oval dish, four soup-plates, a plate and three small dishes, each enamelled with a central pastoral scene depicting the Valentine pattern, a pair of love birds perched on Cupid's quiver beside dogs beneath a peach tree, the border with a coat-of-arms surmounted by a crest and above the motto Persue dividing scattered flower-sprays (one small dish repaired, some cracks and chips), circa 1750
oval dish 41cm. diam. (9)

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Latham impaling Kelsall. Cf. D. S. Howard, op. cit., p. 841, and p. 586 for a blue and white plate with the same arms though different central scene and of slightly later date. Cf. D. Howard and J. Ayers, op. cit., p. 364 for a discussion on the central scene

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