Asian Art Day Two - 20 May 2010

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Two unusual Chinese armorial dishes

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Two unusual Chinese armorial dishes, decorated in sepia with mythological scenes, one of a female figure, but perhaps intended to represent Jupiter riding in a chariot across the sky and with the arms of Humbertson, the other with a scene of Perseus after a European print of The Rescue of Andromeda, the border with the arms of Mackenzie, c.1745, the later dish extensively damaged, 29cm. (2) Cf. D. S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, I, p.334.

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