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A Rare and Important Chinese Export Blue and White Armorial Chamfered Rectangular Platter, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period, Circa 1705 | 清康熙 約1705年 青花紋章圖八方長方大盤
Auction Closed
January 20, 04:11 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
decorated in the center with the arms of Talbot
width 20 1/2 in.; 52 cm
The Collection of Mrs. Rafi Y. Mottahedeh
Sotheby's New York, 27 January 1988, lot 404
The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York
Charles Perry, Atlanta
David Howard and John Ayers, China for the West, London, 1978, London, Vol. 1, cat. no. 40, p. 83.
The present example is from the earliest known full service decorated with an English coat of arms. This group of works was commissioned for Rt. William Talbot (1658-1730), Bishop of Oxford and later of Durham. For the arms, see David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, Vol. I, p. 164, A1. An identical example, formerly in the Wolf Family Collection, sold in these rooms,𓄧 24 April 2023,ꦬ lot 1049.