Lot 31
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A Portuguese armorial blue and white charger
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A Portuguese armorial blue and white charger

CIRCA 1625-50

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A Portuguese armorial blue and white charger
Circa 1625-50
The central shield with a rampant lion surmounted by a helmet with a crenelated tower crest and issuing billowing scrolling mantling, the well with a tied band, the broad border decorated in the Oriental manner with shaped panels of flowers alternating with panels of tied scrolls and divided by narrow panels of lappet and lozenge ornament, the underside with seven stylised large leaves divided by lines (slight chipping and flaking to rim, section of border from 8 o'clock to 11 o'clock broken out and restuck with associated crack to centre and smaller section at 8 o'clock broken in two pieces and repaired)
14½ in. (37 cm.) diam.
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Lot Essay

Two armorial chargers of similar date and type from the Ameal Collection were exhibited in Êxodo, Portugezen in Amsterdam 1600-1680 at the Historisch Museum, Amsterdam are illustrated in the Exhibition Catalogue (1987), p. 65, no. 27, and p. 76, no. 35 (a charger dated 1649).

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