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A Chinese Export Armorial Plate Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, Circa 1780 | 清乾隆 約1780年 青花粉彩紋章圖盤
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Property from the Speed Art Museum, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund
A Chinese Export Armorial Plate
Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, Circa 1780
清乾隆 約1780年 青花粉彩紋章圖盤
painted in the center with the arms of Gordon and inscribed with the motto DUM SISTO VIGILO
width 9 1/2 in.; 24.3 cm
Collection of Helena Woolworth McCann (1878-1938)
Gift of the Winfield Foundation, 1955
Gift of the Winfield Foundation, 1955
For the arms, see David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, Vol. I, London, 1974, p. 673, U2.
Other examples from this service are illustrated in John Goldsmith Phillips, China-Trade Porcelain: An Account of Its Historical Background, Manufacture, and Decoration and a Study of the Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Cambridge, 1956, pls 7, and 46-48.
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