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A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'ITALIAN MARKET' ARMORIAL CHARGER
Lot 562 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MARVIN DAVIDSON

A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'ITALIAN MARKET' ARMORIAL CHARGER

YONGZHENG PERIOD, CIRCA 1722-1725

Closed19 January 2024

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A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'ITALIAN MARKET' ARMORIAL CHARGER
YONGZHENG PERIOD, CIRCA 1722-1725
Enameled at the center with the arms of Giulio Visconti and his second wife, Teresa Cusani, both of Milan, with two iron-red and gilt bands at the cavetto, the rim painted with sprays of flowers and lingzhi fungus spaced by blooms in rose enamel, within a brown band enriched with gilt whorls
12 3⁄8 in. (31.4 cm.) diameter

Specialist note

A plate from this service is illustrated in D. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, II, p. 452, no. 458. Howard and Ayers note that Giuilio Visconti was created a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1721, and that he spent around seven years of the 1720s in the Netherlands, where he likely commissioned the service.