Lot 699
CHINESE EXPORT 'FAMILLE ROSE' ARMORIAL PLATE
MID 18TH CENTURY
Auction: 25 June 2014 at 12:00 BST
£325
Description
of octagonal outline, decorated in gilt and coloured enamels with flowers and a cornucopia and bearing a coat-of-arms above the motto SOLA SUVAT VIRTUS and the initials AS below the same motto
Dimensions
22cm across
Footnote
Note: The arms are those of Stewart. (Cf. D. S. Howard, op. cit., p.576.). This service would have been made for the Hon. Alexander Stewart, 3rd son of the 7th Lord Blantyre