Lot 131
131
A PAIR OF SMALL FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL SAUCERS for the Eastern market, each with a central coat-of-arms flanked by a tiger and an elephant supporter above an Urdu inscription, all within floral panels in a stylised Imari palette, circa 1800

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A PAIR OF SMALL FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL SAUCERS for the Eastern market, each with a central coat-of-arms flanked by a tiger and an elephant supporter above an Urdu inscription, all within floral panels in a stylised Imari palette, circa 1800
10.6cm. diam. (2)
Provenance
Cecil H. Bullivant, sold in London, 22 March 1988, lot 375

Lot Essay

The arms are those of an Indian or Malayan prince. The border design is copied from a Worcester original of about 1762. Cf. D. Howard and J. Ayers, op. cit., p. 487 for a smiliar saucer and J. G. Phillips, op cit., p. 212, pl. 109 for a hot-water plate from this service in the Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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