AN ARMORIAL BOTTLE COOLER

CIRCA 1765

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AN ARMORIAL BOTTLE COOLER
CIRCA 1765
Enamelled in a vivid famille rose palette with various game motifs, including fish, hare, dove and legs of mutton encircled by floral wreaths, under the handles small reserves with fisherman or hunters in landscape, under the molded rim is the coat-of-arms opposite SALDANHA in a banner and thet inscription DEAL BU QUERQUE
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high

Lot Essay

This richly enamelled service was made for Dom Gaspar de Saldanha e Albuquerque (c.1720-?), Prelate of the Church of Lisbon, son of the Governor and Captain-General of Rio de Janeiro and brother of the 1st Count of Ega. See N. de Castro, Chinese Porcelain and the Heraldry of the Empire, p. 105. The American city, Albuquerque, New Mexico, was named in 1706 for an earlier Albuquerque, either Alfonso, famed Portuguese explorer (1453-1515) and first Viceroy of India, or the Spanish Duke de Albuquerque, 34th Viceroy of New Spain. The Iberian city of Albuquerque, Spanish at some moments in history and Portuguese at others, was likely named after the Latin "albus quercus" or white oak.

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