Lot 538
  • 538

A Famille Rose armorial dish

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 EUR
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Description

  • Porcelain
  • Diam. 19,5 cm
gilt-painted and enamelled to the center of a coat-of-arms of Don Antonio Jose de Castro, bishop in Porto, in a lobed medallion, surrounded by gilt-painted radiating leafy stems against a green ground, the cavetto with four lobed medallions enclosing a figure in a landscape

Literature

Other pieces of this service are reproduced in Nuno de Castro, A porcelana chinese e Os Brasoes do Imperio, 1987, p. 19

Condition

The plate is in overall good condition. There is light wear to the gilding and to the enamels, especially to the centre and the rim.
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