A FAMILLE ROSE OCTAGONAL PLATE enamelled at the centre with a mythological figure of Hope seated on an anchor reclining against an armorial shield, the border with four landscape panels emblematic of the Continent (underside of rim minutely fritted), circa 1790

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A FAMILLE ROSE OCTAGONAL PLATE enamelled at the centre with a mythological figure of Hope seated on an anchor reclining against an armorial shield, the border with four landscape panels emblematic of the Continent (underside of rim minutely fritted), circa 1790
24.3cm. wide
Provenance
Kenneth J. Maier
Exhibited
The Art Institute of Chicago, 1960, no. 11

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Kerr with Martin in pretence. Cf. D. S. Howard, op. cit., p. 694, where he notes that the border panels illustrate the four quarters of the globe. Europe, with a gun, merchandise, a cornucopia of plenty and a lady displaying symbols of peace and liberty; Asia, with a pyramid, a camel, pagoda and an Eastern potentate; Africa, with natives trading in trinkets by a jungle, beside an elephant and a crocodile; and America with an Indian, a bear and tobacco plants. Cf. also D. Howard and J. Ayers, op. cit., p. 435, and F. et N. Hervouet et Y. Bruneau, op. cit., p. 328, no. 14.10

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