Lot Essay
The arms are those of Elphinstone. Cf. D. S. Howard, op.cit., p.973
THE PROPERTY OF A NOBLEMAN
A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PART DINNER-SERVICE, each piece enamelled with a central coat-of-arms, coronet, crest, supporters and motto Cause Causit below a narrow gilt scroll band and a wider underglaze-blue cell-pattern band in the well, the border with underglaze-blue brocade-pattern, comprising:
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A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PART DINNER-SERVICE, each piece enamelled with a central coat-of-arms, coronet, crest, supporters and motto Cause Causit below a narrow gilt scroll band and a wider underglaze-blue cell-pattern band in the well, the border with underglaze-blue brocade-pattern, comprising:
An oval foliate dish, 37cm. wide
Four soup-plates (two cracked, one repaired, one damaged), 24.5cm. diam.
Five plates (one repaired and cracked, one chipped), 24cm. diam.
circa 1780 (10)
An oval foliate dish, 37cm. wide
Four soup-plates (two cracked, one repaired, one damaged), 24.5cm. diam.
Five plates (one repaired and cracked, one chipped), 24cm. diam.
circa 1780 (10)