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A CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL LARGE PLATE

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PERIOD: 18th century

A CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL LARGE PLATE boldly painted in the center with the arms of Thomas Pitt of Blandford, Baron Londonderry, with those of his wife Lady Frances Ridgeway in pretence above a banderole inscribed with the motto AMITIE, the rim with the stork crest beneath a baron's coronet between fronds within four oval panels alternating with gold and iron-red floral sprays, lingzhi (sacred fungus) mark within a double circle in underglaze-blue.

PRIX: $12000