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A CHINESE IMARI ARMORIAL 'MARRIAGE' BOWL FOR THE FRENCH MARKET
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A CHINESE IMARI ARMORIAL 'MARRIAGE' BOWL FOR THE FRENCH MARKET

CIRCA 1720

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A CHINESE IMARI ARMORIAL 'MARRIAGE' BOWL FOR THE FRENCH MARKET
Circa 1720
Painted in underglaze blue, iron-red and gilt on each side of the exterior with an accollée coat-of-arms dividing two human masks within a gilt rococco cartouche below a coronet, between chrysanthemum and peony sprays, the interior with similar flowers in a central roundel below a band of floral cartouches reserved on a diaper band at the rim, rim hairline
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) diam.
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Lot Essay

This bowl was probably made to celebrate a marriage between the families of Vergezes d'Aubussargues of Languedoc and De la Barbais of Brittany. A pair of massive Chinese Imari beaker vases with these arms was included in the exhibition Important Chinese Export Porcelain and Works of Art, The Chinese Porcelain Company, 11-30 May 1998, no.31.

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