CIRCA 1755

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AN EXTENSIVE CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN ARMORIAL DINNER SERVICE
CIRCA 1755
Each piece enamelled in the center in famille rose colours with a spray of tulips and roses amidst smaller sprigs, the scalloped rims with lion crests at the top and a large coat-of-arms probably of Swythen impaling another family on the bottom, all bordered in rococo scrollwork in gilt and colours entwined in further sprigs, comprising:
A pair of oval soup tureens and covers, 13¾ in. (35 cm.) wide
A pair of two-handled wine coolers, 6½ in. (16.5cm.) high
5 sauceboats, 7 in. (17.8 cm.) wide
A pair of large mugs, 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm.) high
A bowl, 10½ in. (26.6 cm.) diameter
A pair of bowls, 9 in. (22.9 cm.) diameter
A pair of platters, 19 1/8 in. (48.6 cm.) wide
3 platters, 17½ in. (44.4 cm.) wide
5 platters, 16 1/8 in. (40.9 cm.) wide
5 platters, 14½ in. (36.8 cm.) wide
3 platters, 12¾ in. (32.4cm.) wide
A pair of platters, 11½ in. (29.2cm.) wide
3 deep dishes, 10 in. (25.4 cm.) diameter
41 dinner plates, 9 in. (22.8 cm.) diameter
23 soup plates, 9 in. (22.8 cm.) diamter (103)

Special notice

Christie's is selling all lots in this sale as agent for an organization which holds a State of New York Exempt Organization certificate. Seller explicitly reserves all trademark and trade name rights and rights of privacy and publicity in the name and image of Doris Duke. No buyer of any property in this sale will acquire any right to use the Doris Duke name or image. Seller further explicitly reserves all copyright rights in designs or other copyrightable works included in the property offered for sale. No buyer of any property in the sale will acquire the rights to reproduce, distribute copies of, or prepare derivative works of such designs or copyrightable works.

Lot Essay

The arms are most certainly of Swythen; the impaled arms are not recorded and without a recorded mention of Swythen it remains difficult to make a decision on the impaled coat. For a further discussion on the impaling arms, please see David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, volume II, page 243.

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