• Christies auction house James Christie logo

    Sale 8806

    The British Interior

    New York, Park Avenue

    |

    21 - 22 January 1998

    Browse Sale
Previous Lot
Search
Next Lot
    • AN OKEOVER PLATE
    Lot 207

    AN OKEOVER PLATE

    CIRCA 1743

    Price realised

    USD 11,500

    Estimate

    USD 10,000 - USD 15,000

    Follow lot

    AN OKEOVER PLATE
    Circa 1743
    With a large coat-of-arms of Okeover quarterly impaling Nichol in the center set against elaborate scrolling mantling and pennants and flanked by white horses rising from water, the rim enamelled with the gilt cypher monogram MLO and the dragon and coronet Okeover crest within scrollwork cartouches flanked by sea creatures and rising from water, all on a field of flowers
    9.1/8in. (23.2cm.)

    Contact us

    • Contact Client Service

      info@christies.com

      New York +1 212 636 2000

      London +44 (0)20 7839 9060

      infoasia@christies.com

      Asia +852 2760 1766

    Lot Essay

    From the famous service made for Leake Okeover (1702-65) and Mary Nichol Okeover for which the original invoice survives, dated 1743 and reading "...from ye Jerusalem Coffee House, Change Alley, a consignment of fifty plates and four large dishes with your arms", as does the original drawing, reading "...a pattern for china plate. Pattern to be returned." See D.S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, p. 398

    Recommended features

      • Antenna: The enduring friendsh
      • Antenna: The enduring friendship of Hepburn and Givenchy

        Ahead of an online sale that honours their close bond, Meredith Etherington-Smith​ traces the roots of a 40-year collaboration

      • Francis Bacon’s Study for Port
      • Francis Bacon’s Study for Portrait

        Francis Bacon's poignant celebration of George Dyer, the artist's most important subject, will star in Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 17 May

Share
Email
Copy link
Share
Email
Copy link