Antique Chinese & Japanese PorcelainEuropean Ceramics & Works of Art
Pair of Armorial Plates, Early Qianlong (1736-1795), decorated to the centres in blue with peony blooms issuing from leafy foliage, the cavettos with a band of lambrequin spear-head border in gilt, the rims each with three leafy sprays of rose and fruiting pomegranate on a bianco supra bianco background of flower heads and scrolling leaves, surmounted by an English crest of a cockerel with outstretched wings and a crown.
Dimensions:
Diameter: 23cm. (9 1/16in.)
Condition:
slight rubbing to enamels
Notes:
A plate from this same service is illustrated in Howard, David (1974). Chinese Armorial Porcelain (vol. I). Faber and Faber, p.320, pl.H3.
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