Description
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23 cm. Condition: Excellent. Slight wear to the gilding and the enamel of the parrot. A very small chip on the back of the rim. The crest, according to Fairburn, plate 101, no. 4. is for the De Butts family of which branches may be found in Surrey and Norfolk. Another branch may be found in Maryland, USA, who included Henry De Butts, Adjutant General and Inspector General of the US Army in 1792-3. Provenance: With M. Bascourt, Antwerp. See also "Hit & Myth", Cohen & Cohen, 2014, page 107, nr. 62, for a similar dinner plate. |
Lot 283
A Chinese armorial porcelain plate with a parrot, Yongzheng, ca. 1725
This lot was sold on 12 October 2015 and is no longer available
