CIRCA 1730

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A FINE LARGE ROSE-IMARI ARMORIAL DISH
Circa 1730
Enamelled and gilt at the centre with a large coat-of-arms for Leuven (Louvain) below a crown and above the inscription LOVEN, all within an architectural arch flanked by two elegant ladies, the well with a band of underglaze blue diaper reserved with six fish and crustacea cartouches, the border with similar diaper reserved with larger cartouches of ladies on terraces alternating with prunus branches
19 in. (48 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

This dish is from one of four or five services of dishes, plates and shaving bowls, each bearing the arms of various countries, and also provinces and cities of the United Netherlands; at least twenty-three different arms are recorded. For discussions on these dishes, see D. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, 1978, vol.I, pp.118 and 119, and C. Le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, 1974, pp.38 and 39.

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