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Plate, Chinese armorial export porcelain, blue-grey paste slightly pitted (mainly on the reverse), everted rim and shallow, fritted foot rim; brown edged, the rim enamelled between red line borders with a design of leaves and flower heads in red, green, gold, yellow and blue linked by a red stem, and interupted by two opposed roundels containing the crest, a demi-lion rampant sable, collared or, on a wreath argent and azure (both reversed), cavetto painted with four sprays of stylised oriental flowers in the same palette surrounding a central medallion containing the arms, ermine a saltire or, the same crest, again reversed, above, perhaps for Richard Vaughan (c.1665-1734) of Cors-y-Gedol, Merionethshire.
Commissioned in China, this plate is probably decorated with the arms of Richard Vaughan (c.1665-1734) of Cors-y-Gedol, Merionethshire.
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