A LARGE EARLY BLUE AND WHITE ARMORIAL PLATTER

CIRCA 1705

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A LARGE EARLY BLUE AND WHITE ARMORIAL PLATTER
Circa 1705
In the center the arms of Talbot as borne by the Earls of Shrewsbury, the Talbot crest repeated on the well within clusters of auspicious objects and ribbon-tied precious symbols, a cash medallion inner border and a lightly molded piecrust rim, the back with four blossoming boughs
20½in. (52cm.) wide

拍品專文

One of the earliest English armorial orders, this service was made for the Rt. Revd. William Talbot, a descendant of the second Earl of Shrewsbury. He seems to have had a distinguished church career, becoming Dean of Worcester 1691, Bishop of Oxford 1699, Bishop of Salisbury 1715 and of Durham 1722. His eldest son Charles, a Lord High Chancellor, was made Baron Talbot in 1733, and his grandson William was advanced to an earldom in 1761. All ordered Chinese armorial services. The first Earl Talbot also commissioned a pair of lifesize Chinese porcelain hounds, sold in 1956 by his descendant, the Earl of Shrewsbury, and later sold Christie's New York, 21 January 1999, lot 156. See Howard & Ayers, op. cit., p. 83, for a very similar dish then in the Mottahedeh collection