Dia.: 35,5 cm

Painted to the centre with a coat of arms of the Portuguese Coelho family, consisting of seven hares (coelho) and a lion, surrounded by two broad borders with dense embellishments.

The Brazilian-born António de Albuquerque Coelho (1682–1745), who as a mestizo held various administrative posts in the Portuguese colonial empire, most probably commissioned this plate to his father António de Albuquerque Coelho de Carvalho (1655– 1725) during his stay in Macao. His father was Governor General of Rio de Janeiro and Governor of Sao Paulo from 1709–1713, and Governor of Angola from 1722. The three existing services for members of the Coelho family differ in the number of rabbits (coelho) in the coat of arms. In the present dish there are seven hares in the coat of arms, which can be attributed to the plates owned by the father, while the coat of arms of the young António featured six hares and that of the brother four hares.

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