A LARGE ARMORIAL PLATE

CIRCA 1735

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A LARGE ARMORIAL PLATE
Circa 1735
The center with a large and complex coat-of-arms in gilt, colored enamels and silvering supported by a bluish-gray and a sepia and gilt lion, the crest shown twice on the rim between finely drawn flowering boughs in blue enamel, grisaille and gilt
9¾in. (24.7cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Made for James Sandilands, 7th Baron of Torphichen and descendant of Sir Archibald Douglas, Regent of Scotland, who married Lady Jean Hume, daughter of the first Earl of Marchmont. For full details on the family and the arms, marshalled with 21 coats, see D.S. Howard, op. cit., p. 308

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