FOUR GRADUATED CHINESE IMARI ARMORIAL PLATES
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FOUR GRADUATED CHINESE IMARI ARMORIAL PLATES

CIRCA 1720

Closed21 July 2015

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FOUR GRADUATED CHINESE IMARI ARMORIAL PLATES
CIRCA 1720
Each plate decorated with various flowers including hibiscus, lotus and peony, and the rim decorated with the arms of Boone (or Bohun) of Lincolnshire
Largest plate 17 in (43 cm.) diam., smallest plate 8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) diam.

Specialist note

The service was likely to have been made for Charles Boone, who was appointed the Governor of Bombay in 1716 and later became a director of the East India Company. For the arms, see David S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, p. 179