A FAMILLE ROSE AMORIAL SOUP-PLATE with foliate rim vividly enamelled in the well and on the border with a coat-of-arms and supporters above the motto Et Decus Etpretium Recti (sic), above a central scene depicting a child peering through a moongate at a lady using an abacus behind a shop counter serving a gentleman holding a fan, the remainder of the border painted with camaieu rose cartouches reserved on a gilt floral ground within a blue enamel trellis border (rim minutely fritted), circa 1755

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A FAMILLE ROSE AMORIAL SOUP-PLATE with foliate rim vividly enamelled in the well and on the border with a coat-of-arms and supporters above the motto Et Decus Etpretium Recti (sic), above a central scene depicting a child peering through a moongate at a lady using an abacus behind a shop counter serving a gentleman holding a fan, the remainder of the border painted with camaieu rose cartouches reserved on a gilt floral ground within a blue enamel trellis border (rim minutely fritted), circa 1755
22.5cm. diam.

Provenance

Cecil H. Bullivant, sold in London, 22 March 1988, lot 225

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton. Cf. D. S. Howard, op. cit., p. 345 for a black and white illustration and p. 130 for a colour illustration

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