Lot 172
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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE AND ENAMELLED ARMORIAL DISH FOR THE PORTUGUESE MARKET, enamelled with a central coat-of-arms below a coronet surrounded by an underglaze-blue and gilt inner and outer border of linked swags (small rim chips and related short hairline), Qianlong, circa 1720

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE AND ENAMELLED ARMORIAL DISH FOR THE PORTUGUESE MARKET, enamelled with a central coat-of-arms below a coronet surrounded by an underglaze-blue and gilt inner and outer border of linked swags (small rim chips and related short hairline), Qianlong, circa 1720
39.5cm. diam.

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Luiz de Ataide, Count de Atougia, Governor and Captain-General of the Algarve and sixth Viceroy of Brazil from 1749-1755. He was born in 1700 and died in 1758

Seven series are known with the same armorial shield, although with different borders. Cf. N. de Castro, op. cit., p.55 and D. Howard and J. Ayers, op. cit., vol.II, p.451, pl.457a

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