A CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL PLATTER

DATED 24 JANUARY 1791

细节

A CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL PLATTER
Dated 24 January 1791
With the arms of Chadwick quarterly of six suspended from a purple bow with gilt husk swag, the borders a series of narrow neoclassical motifs in blue enamel and gilt
16in. (40.6cm.) wide

拍品专文

From a dinner service inscribed in black script on the back Canton/in China/24th Jan.y 1791, the only export porcelain dated in this way. The service included pieces showing the arms both quarterly and of six. See D.S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, p. 741