AN OKEOVER PLATE

CIRCA 1743

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AN OKEOVER PLATE
Circa 1743
With a large coat-of-arms of Okeover quarterly impaling Nichol in the center set against elaborate scrolling mantling and pennants and flanked by white horses rising from water, the rim enamelled with the gilt cypher monogram MLO and the dragon and coronet Okeover crest within scrollwork cartouches flanked by sea creatures and rising from water, all on a field of flowers
9.1/8in. (23.2cm.)

Lot Essay

From the famous service made for Leake Okeover (1702-65) and Mary Nichol Okeover for which the original invoice survives, dated 1743 and reading "...from ye Jerusalem Coffee House, Change Alley, a consignment of fifty plates and four large dishes with your arms", as does the original drawing, reading "...a pattern for china plate. Pattern to be returned." See D.S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, p. 398