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Pair of Chinese export famille rose armorial plates Circa 1780.…
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Pair of Chinese export famille rose armorial plates Circa 1780. Enamelled at the centre with the arms and crest of King below gilt dart-pattern in the well and narrow green enamel and gilt bands at the rim. The arms are probably those of the King family of Skelling in Yorkshire. See D. S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, p.654. Dean King of Shelling Yorkshire died in 1795. Of his five sons, Captain John King RN FRS accompanied Capt. James Cook on his last voyage in 1779 and was in Canton in 1780. Diameter 22.5 cm
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