AN ARMORIAL CHARGER

CIRCA 1720

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AN ARMORIAL CHARGER
Circa 1720
Boldly painted in the center with a large coat-of-arms of Gough impaling Hynde against exuberantly scrolling acanthus leaves and beneath the boar's head crest, the rim with clusters of flowering branches in bright tones of underglaze blue
15 3/8in. (39cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Captain Harry Gough (1681-1751) made numerous voyages to Canton, where he was known as Amy Wang, the 'White-Haired Boy'. He married Elizabeth Hynde in 1719; this is one of four services they commissioned. See D.S. Howard, op. cit., pp. 167-8

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