TWO ARMORIAL SOUP PLATES

CIRCA 1715 AND 1720

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TWO ARMORIAL SOUP PLATES
CIRCA 1715 AND 1720
One boldly painted in the Imari palette with the arms of Lord Somers, the rising sun crest of Walker repeated in error four times on the rim; the other with the arms of Stanley impaling Granville in the center, the rim with famille verte sprays of lotus and chrysanthemum
8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) and 9 in. (22.8 cm.) diameter, respectively (2)

Provenance

with Cohen & Cohen, London (the Somers example)

Lot Essay

The first commissioned for John Somers, Lord Chancellor, made Lord Somers of Evesham (d.1716) but erroneously decorated with the crest of his friend Dr. William Walker, whose own service had come from China three years earlier. (Cf. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, vol. I, p. 177)

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