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A LARGE ENGLISH MARKET ARMORIAL
PLATTER
QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1760
396
Arms of Nassau quarterly for the Earl of Rochford;
motto SPES DURAT AMORUM
18º in. (46.3 cm.) long
$5,000–8,000
William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of
Rochford (1717-1781) was the son of the courtier
and landowner Frederick, 3rd Earl of Rochford
(1682-1738). His grandfather had been a close
friend of King William III and had served as a
major-general in the invasion force of 1688.

397
AN ENGLISH MARKET ARMORIAL DISH
KANGXI PERIOD, CIRCA 1720
With a large coat-of-arms for Thomas Pitt of
Blandford within distinctive gilt border enclosing
the coronet four times
13æ in. (34.9 cm.) diameter
$6,000–9,000
Thomas Pitt of Blandford married Lady Frances
Ridgeway in 1717 and was created Baron
Londonderry in 1719. His father, a Governor of
Fort St. George India, had fostered the family
fortune when he sold an Indian diamond (still in
the Crown of France) to the French royal family
397
for a huge proft. See D.S. Howard, Chinese
Armorial Porcelain, vol. I, p. 184.

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