Sale 5190
| Philadelphia
| Philadelphia
Estimate$400 – $600
Comprising an octagonal plate and octagonal soup bowl, the wells painted with the arms of the Maidstone family of Essex, the rims with gilt edge and decorated with a floral border and birds at the cardinal points. (2).
Dia: 8 1/2 in.Provenance
Elinor Gordon Chinese Export Porcelain, Villanova, Pennsylvania.
Elinor Gordon Chinese Export Porcelain, Villanova, Pennsylvania.
plate: with over-painting to 7 of 8 corners and a few other areas along edge, a few underside corners with overpainting evident, one small hairline along edge (with over-painting at end), some loss to gilding to center armorial; soup bowl: with general roughness along rim, and with some occasional fleabites or rim chips to both front and back, base rim with some old chips, some loss to gilding to center armorial, the front with some noted firing imperfections / fritting and scratches
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