Lot 219
THREE ROUGE-DE-FER 'ARMS OF LOVELACE' CHARGERS
YONGZHENG PERIOD
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 15 May 2019 at 17:00 BST
Description
painted and gilt with the coat of arms of Lovelace with the motto 'LABOR IPSE VOLUPTAS' (Labour itself is a pleasure), surrounded by four small cartouches enclosing objects of the 'Hundred Antiques' against a diaper ground to the cavetto, the wide rim painted with beribboned precious objects (3)
Dimensions
35cm diameter
Footnote
Provenance:
The Estate of the 5th Earl of Lovelace.
Note:
The arms are of King impaling Seys for Peter King, 1st Baron King of Ockham, and his wife Anne, daughter of Richard Seys of Boverton, Glamorgan. They married in 1704. These plates were produced circa 1726.
A pair of plates from the same service were sold by Lyon & Turnbull, lot 84, Contents of Torridon House, 28th October 2015.
Literature:
Howard, David S.: Chinese Armorial Porcelain, 1974, D2.