A CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL OCTAGONAL SOUP PLATE QIANLONG PERIOD, 1770

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painted with the arms of the Preston Baronets of Valleyfield House, Perth, within a chain-link border and hung with floral swags suspended from rouge-de-fer and gilt bows Diameter 21.5cm Davidson Collection no: 2 Provenance: Lynda Willauer Antiques. A copy of the invoice is available This service was ordered by the very successful Captain Robert Pres- ton, who was in Canton in 1768 and was later a managing owner of thirty East Indiamen. See Chinese Armorial Porcelain, David Sanctuary Howard, London 1974, Vol I, p.615, S2 TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE

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