Lot Essay
See footnote lot 216.
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A LARGE ROSE-VERTE IMARI ARMORIAL DISH, Kangxi, circa 1720
For the Dutch market, enamelled at the centre with a coat-of-arms bearing the inscription 'Meccelen' below, surmounted by a coronet, flanked by female figures standing in niches below a pediment, surrounded at the well by fish and crustacea vignettes, the wide rim decorated with alternate cartouches of prunus and figures, reserved on an underglaze blue trellis diaper-pattern (base crack and small restoration)
48cm. diam.
For the Dutch market, enamelled at the centre with a coat-of-arms bearing the inscription 'Meccelen' below, surmounted by a coronet, flanked by female figures standing in niches below a pediment, surrounded at the well by fish and crustacea vignettes, the wide rim decorated with alternate cartouches of prunus and figures, reserved on an underglaze blue trellis diaper-pattern (base crack and small restoration)
48cm. diam.