A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL CYLINDRICAL WINE-COOLER for the Spanish market enamelled on either side of the exterior with a coat-of-arms surrounded by four fleur de lys and scrolls, surmounted by coronet, and divided by two iron-red and gilt Buddhistic-lion handles above birds on rockwork amongst flowers, all beneath a moulded band at the rim decorated in iron-red and gilt cell-pattern embellished with blue enamel lappets, the centre of the interior with flowers and a sceptre (one handle partly restored, minute rim chip), Yongzheng

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A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL CYLINDRICAL WINE-COOLER for the Spanish market enamelled on either side of the exterior with a coat-of-arms surrounded by four fleur de lys and scrolls, surmounted by coronet, and divided by two iron-red and gilt Buddhistic-lion handles above birds on rockwork amongst flowers, all beneath a moulded band at the rim decorated in iron-red and gilt cell-pattern embellished with blue enamel lappets, the centre of the interior with flowers and a sceptre (one handle partly restored, minute rim chip), Yongzheng
13cm. high

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The arms are those of Galvete of Gupuzoa. The cross behind the shield indicates that the bearer of the arms was a knight of the military Order of Calatrava (founded in 1158) and still extant in Spain

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