Lot Essay
It is unusual to find arms enamelled over Chinese decoration like this. Howard speculates (ibid) that this unique bowl may have been a wedding present.
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CIRCA 1796
Details
A BLUE AND WHITE ARMORIAL BOWL
CIRCA 1796
Enamelled in colors with the arms of Page with Herbert in pretence amid continuous riverscape, inside is a small landscape vignette, its rim a blue trellis band edged in spearhead
10¼ in. (26 cm.) diameter
CIRCA 1796
Enamelled in colors with the arms of Page with Herbert in pretence amid continuous riverscape, inside is a small landscape vignette, its rim a blue trellis band edged in spearhead
10¼ in. (26 cm.) diameter
Provenance
The collection of Mrs. Diana Dripps
Literature
D.S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, vol. II, p. 423