Lot 187
187
Various Properties
A SET OF FOUR FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL SAUCER-DISHES enamelled at the centre with a diamond-shaped coat-of-arms below an iron-red and gilt cell-pattern band reserved with emblem panels in the well, the border with four clusters of Buddhist emblems divided by small fruit sprays (three cracked), circa 1724

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A SET OF FOUR FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL SAUCER-DISHES enamelled at the centre with a diamond-shaped coat-of-arms below an iron-red and gilt cell-pattern band reserved with emblem panels in the well, the border with four clusters of Buddhist emblems divided by small fruit sprays (three cracked), circa 1724
22.5cm. diam. (4)

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Frederick with Marescoe in pretence and impaling Marescoe. Cf. D.S. Howard, op.cit., p.202. The service was made for Leonora, widow of Thomas Frederick, a merchant for the East India Company, and son of the Lord Mayor of London. Cf. also Sir A. Tudor-Craig, op.cit. p.16; and the plate from the Liebman Collection, Elvehjem Museum, Wisconsin, Catalogue, pl.7, p.31

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