Lot 125
125
A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PLATE for the German market, enamelled at the centre with an elaborate coat-of-arms flanked by supporters on an ermine mantle and surmounted by a coronet, the foliate rim with an iron-red and gilt wave-pattern border (cracked, small rim chip, enamels slightly rubbed), Qianlong

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A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PLATE for the German market, enamelled at the centre with an elaborate coat-of-arms flanked by supporters on an ermine mantle and surmounted by a coronet, the foliate rim with an iron-red and gilt wave-pattern border (cracked, small rim chip, enamels slightly rubbed), Qianlong
23.3cm. diam.

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Leopold II, Duke of Anhalt. Cf. J. G. Phillips, op cit., pl. 27 and 28 for a tureen and stand and three dishes from this service; and M. Beurdeley, op. cit., p. 110, fig. 80 for the tureen, cover and stand from the McCann Collection, Museum of Fine Art, Boston. Cf. also C. le Corbeiller, op. cit., pp. 80-81

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