PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND (LOTS 499-501)

A CHINESE EXPORT PORTUGESE MARKET ARMORIAL TUREEN, COVER AND STAND

CIRCA 1765

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A CHINESE EXPORT PORTUGESE MARKET ARMORIAL TUREEN, COVER AND STAND
CIRCA 1765
Enameled with game motifs, including fish, hare, doves and a leg of mutton encircled by a floral wreath, the rim with the SALDANHA banner, the arms, and landscape vignettes of a fisherman and hunter in landscape between the inscription DE ALBUQUERQUE
13 3/8 in. (34 cm.) wide (the stand) (3)

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Lot Essay

This richly enameled service was made for Dom Gaspar de Saldanha e Albuquerque (c.1720-?), Prelate of the Church of Lisbon, son of the Governor and Captain-General of Rio de Janeiro and brother of the 1st Count of Ega. See N. de Castro, Chinese Porcelain and the Heraldry of the Empire, p. 105. The American city, Albuquerque, New Mexico, was named in 1706 for an earlier Albuquerque, either Alfonso, famed Portuguese explorer (1453-1515) and first Viceroy of India, or the Spanish Duke de Albuquerque, 34th Viceroy of New Spain.

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