Lot Essay
The arms are those of Mertins impaling Peck. See D. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, p. 214, nr. D4
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CIRCA 1725
Details
A famille rose armorial dish
Circa 1725
Enamelled and gilt to the centre with a coat-of-arms surmounted by a helmet and within feathery mantling, the deep well with an iron-red and gilt honeycomb-pattern enriched with cartouches enclosing symbols, the everted rim with a dense floral scroll, rim chip
39 cm. diam.
Circa 1725
Enamelled and gilt to the centre with a coat-of-arms surmounted by a helmet and within feathery mantling, the deep well with an iron-red and gilt honeycomb-pattern enriched with cartouches enclosing symbols, the everted rim with a dense floral scroll, rim chip
39 cm. diam.
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