Lot 40
  • 40

A Chinese Export armorial platter circa 1765

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • length 14 5/8 in.
  • 37.2 cm
painted in the center with the arms of Hynam. Minor flaking to enamels.

Condition

Some small patches of flaking to the blue enamel on the coat of arms, otherwise good condition.
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Catalogue Note

 A plate from this service is illustrated by David S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, p. 427, no. P11, where it is noted that the service was made for Robert Hynam, "a clockmaker of London, who in 1776 went to the Court of St. Petersburg as clockmaker to the Empress Catherine the Great."