CIRCA 1710

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A LARGE CHINESE IMARI ARMORIAL DISH
Circa 1710
Octagonal and painted in the center with a coat-of-arms beneath a helmet crest surmounted by a checkerboard fan, a band at the top inscribed in gilt CORBEAU, on the blue shield the outline of three birds visible under gilt scrollwork, all within wide borders in the Japanese taste
18 in. (45.7 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

From a group of Imari dishes made for the Corbel or Corbet family of France, all of whom had arms with three crows (corbeau meaning crow in French), and evidently made from stock Chinese Imari dishes. See the Hodroff collection (D.S. Howard, op. cit., p. 47) and another in the Mottahedeh collection (Howard & Ayers, op. cit., p. 141). A similar group is known inscribed PAMEN for the Dutch family.

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