Lot 180
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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE AMORIAL OVAL SALTS, each enamelled at the centre with a coat-of-arms suspended from a garland and surrounded by a floral festoon all within bands of underglaze-blue spear-heads and trellis-pattern at the border, circa 1790 (2)

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE AMORIAL OVAL SALTS, each enamelled at the centre with a coat-of-arms suspended from a garland and surrounded by a floral festoon all within bands of underglaze-blue spear-heads and trellis-pattern at the border, circa 1790 (2)

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The arms are those of Anderson impaling Johnson. Cf. D. S. Howard, op. cit., p. 720. The Anderson family were from Edinburgh and descended from the Revd. Patrick Anderson, a nonconformist priest in Lanarkshire after the Restoration

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