QIANLONG, THE FIRST CIRCA 1730

Details

Two armorial plates
Qianlong, the first circa 1730
A plate elaborately decorated with an accolé coat-of-arms, surrounded on the border with a Louis XV-style festoon and shell border interrupted by four repeating smaller arms, the second plate painted with central arms in iron-red and gilt, the top of the rim with an eagle's head above three flower sprays, some rubbing
22.7 cm. diam (2)

Special notice

Christie's charge a premium to the buyer on the final bid price of each lot sold at the following rates: 23.8% of the final bid price of each lot sold up to and including €150,000 and 14.28% of any amount in excess of €150,000. Buyers' premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.

Lot Essay

The arms of the first dish are those of the De la Bistrate family of Antwerp and the Proli family of Milan and Brabant. See C.J.A. Jörg, Chinese Export Porcelain from the Royal Museum of Art and History in Brussels, 1989, p.244, nr. 96.

More from Asian Ceramics and Works of Art

View All