A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE DOUBLE-MONOGRAM MARRIAGE PLATES enamelled at the centre with Neptune and Venus, each supporting a large cornucopia bearing the reversible monograms AC and ME and a crown in their raised hands, standing on a grassy mound beside two love birds, the well with an iron-red and gilt floral and vine garland and the foliate border with three flower-sprays at the border below a band of gilt spear-heads at the shaped rim (cracked, rim chips restored), Qianlong | Christie's

Lot 179

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE DOUBLE-MONOGRAM MARRIAGE PLATES enamelled at the centre with Neptune and Venus, each supporting a large cornucopia bearing the reversible monograms AC and ME and a crown in their raised hands, standing on a grassy mound beside two love birds, the well with an iron-red and gilt floral and vine garland and the foliate border with three flower-sprays at the border below a band of gilt spear-heads at the shaped rim (cracked, rim chips restored), Qianlong

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE DOUBLE-MONOGRAM MARRIAGE PLATES enamelled at the centre with Neptune and Venus, each supporting a large cornucopia bearing the reversible monograms AC and ME and a crown in their raised hands, standing on a grassy mound beside two love birds, the well with an iron-red and gilt floral and vine garland and the foliate border with three flower-sprays at the border below a band of gilt spear-heads at the shaped rim (cracked, rim chips restored), Qianlong
22.7cm. diam. (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. D. Howard and J. Ayers, op.cit., vol.2, pl.396 and 397; J.G. Phillips, op.cit., pl.41 for a similar plate; and the dish from the Liebman Collection now in the Elvehjem Museum, Wisconsin, Catalogue, pl.45, p.70

A larger single dish from this service was sold in these Rooms, 9 May 1994, lot 21

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