A 'LEAKE OKEOVER' PLATE
A PRIVATE NAPLES, FLORIDA COLLECTION
A 'LEAKE OKEOVER' PLATE

CIRCA 1743

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A 'LEAKE OKEOVER' PLATE
CIRCA 1743
Elaborately and finely enameled and gilt with the arms of Okeover quarterly impaling Nichol rising from water with two horses and pennants behind, the border with the cypher MLO and Okeover crest
9 in. (22.9 cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

This service is probably the most famous of the great English armorial services of the 18th century for the elaborate design of the armorials painted by the English portraitist Arthur Devis (1708-1787) and then sent to China to be copied, and also for the fact that both the painting and the original invoice for the service have survived and still remain with descendants of the family.

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