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Lot 246
  • 246

A very rare set of six Chinese Imari Armorial dishes Kangxi, circa 1710

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 EUR
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Description

  • diam. 28cm
each of octagonal form, decorated with a central roundel depicting a coat-of-arms below a scroll inscribed CORBEAU, surrounded by shaped panels enclosing plants, a Buddhist lion and a group of cranes, reserved on a washed-blue ground with meandering camelia

Literature

David S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain Illustrated from the Hodroff Collection, Zwemmer, 1994, p.47.

Catalogue Note

This set of dishes seems to be from a group made for the Corbel or Corbet family of France, all of whom had arms with three crows (Corbeau meaning crow in French)> see for a similar plate the Mottahedeh collection