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Lot Essay
The arms are almost certainly those of Tyssen. See D. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, Oxford, 1974, p. 178, fig. B3.
Details
An Imari armorial dish
CIRCA 1715
Painted in underglaze-blue, iron-red and gilt with four birds among a meander of scrolling flower-heads and foliage, interrupted at the top by a coat-of-arms of a demi-lion holding a blue shield with gold star
38 cm. diam.
CIRCA 1715
Painted in underglaze-blue, iron-red and gilt with four birds among a meander of scrolling flower-heads and foliage, interrupted at the top by a coat-of-arms of a demi-lion holding a blue shield with gold star
38 cm. diam.
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