A Rare and Large Chinese Export Armorial Scalloped-rim Platter, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, circa 1745 | 清乾隆 約1745年 粉彩紋章圖花口大盤
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A Rare and Large Chinese Export Armorial Scalloped-rim Platter
Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, circa 1745
清乾隆 約1745年 粉彩紋章圖花口大盤
painted in the center with the arms of Fazakerley impaling Lutwyche within a grisaille rope border, the top painted with the Fazakerley swan crest
length 21 in.; 53.3 cm
For the arms, see David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, Vol. I, London, 1974, p. 352, L4. Three other examples from this service are illustrated in Sir Algernon Tudor-Craig, Armorial Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century, London, 1925, p.53. A soup plate from this service was sold in these rooms, January 18th, 1977.