THREE CHINESE IMARI ARMORIAL PIECES
THREE CHINESE IMARI ARMORIAL PIECES

CIRCA 1716-20

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THREE CHINESE IMARI ARMORIAL PIECES
CIRCA 1716-20
The bowl painted front and back with the arms of Horsemonden of Kent between stylized lotus and ruyi-head cartouches; the plates with the arms of Talbot and Boone, respectively, within lotus, chrysanthemum and other flowers
9¾ in. (24.7 cm.) diameter, the Talbot plate (3)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 6 June 1967, lot 208 (the bowl).
The Mildred R. and Rafi Y. Mottahedeh Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 19 October 2000, lot 148 (the bowl).
Literature
Howard and Ayers, China for the West, vol. I., pp. 142-3, no. 123 (the bowl).
Fuchs and Howard, Made in China, p. 21 (Boone) and p. 44, no. 9 (Talbot).
Exhibited
China Institute in America, 1976, no. 9.
Viriginia Museum, 1981-82.
New-York Historical Society, New York City, New York and the China Trade, 1984, no. A8 (the bowl, all exhibits).

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Lot Essay

Daniel Horsemonden was one of a number of members of this Kent family that emigrated to America in the 17th and 18th centuries. Born in 1691, he died in Flatbush, New York, 1778.

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