A set of six armorial plates , CIRCA 1745 | Christie's

Sale 2739

Asian Art

Amsterdam

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2 May 2007

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Lot 175

A set of six armorial plates

CIRCA 1745

Price realised

EUR 4,560

Estimate

EUR 1,200 - EUR 1,800

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A set of six armorial plates
Circa 1745
Each enamelled and gilt with a lady seated on a carpet between a servant offering coffee and a lady holding a fan, within a spearhead border in the well, the everted octagonal rim decorated with four landscape cartouches, the bottom one depicting a coat-of-arms and the one above with the inscription 'Gorde.Manuque', minute rim frits
22 cm. diam. (6)
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Lot Essay

The arms of are those of the family Gordon quartering Forbes. See D. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, p. 313, nr. J1.

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