A Pair of French Market Armorial Plates

Each decorated with a central French Coat of Arms of Pierre-Marie de La Villhunault Gesril

Within a blue enamel floral swag border

Qianlong C1778

Diameter; 23.7 cm

Condition; excellent

There is a frit to the rim of one plate

A shallow flake 0.2 cm to the underside of the rim of the other

See ‘The Porcelain Room, Chinese Export Porcelain’ an exhibition held at Fandazione Prada, Milan

No 210, for a similar plate

Also for a pair of dishes earlier in this catalogue where the blue enamel is replaced by a puce enamel