PERIOD: 18th century
A CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL PLATE CIRCA 1743 painted in the center with the arms of Okeover quartering Byrmingham (probably) and Leake and impaling Nichol within an elaborate baroque cartouche and mantling above two hippocampi and pennants, and the rim with four rococo cartouches either monogrammed LMO in blue or containing the ducal coronet and demi dragon crest and alternating with floral bouquets between gilt bead-and-reel borders on the cavetto and the rim edge. Tiny chip under the rim. 23cm
PRIX: $11000