A FINE CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL SOUP PLATE, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1743
lavishly painted in the center with the arms of Okeover quartering Byrmingham (probably) and Leake and impaling Nichol, flanked and supported by a pair of hippocampi and pennants, the rim elaborately decorated with four rococo cartouches, either inscribed with the LMO monogram or painted with a dragon crest above a crown
diameter 8 3/4 in.; 22.4 cm
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Saleroom Notice
The Collection of Colonel Sir Ian Walker-Okeover, Bt., D.S.O., sold at Christie's London, March 3, 1975, one of lots 173-176
J. Rochelle Thomas, New York
Sotheby's New York, January 20, 1998
Henry Moog, Atlanta
Collection of Mary Porter Walsh
Sotheby's New York, January 21-22, 2000, lot 218