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A LARGE 'PROVINCES' DISH A BAROQUE TASTE WINE COOLER A VERY LARGE ITALIAN MARKET
KANGXI PERIOD, CIRCA 1710 QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1740 ARMORIAL DISH
The coat-of-arms reading LUXENBURGH With baroque strapwork after Jean Berain and KANGXI PERIOD, CIRCA 1720
18Ω in. (47 cm.) diameter fgural handles inspired by Alcora faience From one of seven services with the arms of Pietro
8º in. (21 cm.) high Marini of the wealthy ship-owning and merchant
$15,000–25,000
family of Milan
$10,000–15,000
18¬ in. (47.3 cm.) diameter
LITERATURE:
D.S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, PROVENANCE: $8,000–12,000
London, 1994, p. 49, no. 18. With Cohen & Cohen, London.
PROVENANCE:
Series of these dishes, in four related patterns, The Mottahedeh Collection; Sotheby's, New York,
were ordered in China in the 1720s with the arms 30 January 1985, lot 271.
of the principle towns and provinces of present-
day Belgium and the Netherlands plus the arms
of England and France. 23 diferent arms seem
to comprise each series; the spellings suggest a
Dutch clientele, and the grouping suggests the
borders of this region after the 1713 Treaty of
Utrecht.

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