A Chinese Octagonal Export Armorial Dish with Grisielle Border

18th century, porcelain octagonal shaped plate hand painted in polychrome enamels with the a crest of an iron red rampant lion with crown topped by the same above, decorated along the rim with shaped gilt reserves populated with scenic landscape in grisielle.

10 in. diameter

Private Collection, Virginia Beach, Virginia Collected by the consignor and her husband with the guidance of David Sanctuary Howard, who literally wrote the book on Chinese Armorial porcelain. The couple began collecting during the 1970s from galleries and auction houses across Europe and the United States, and even from Howard himself. This collection is a very special offering of some rare and wonderful pieces collected over a lifetime with great care and passion.

Good estate condition, light glaze flakes at the rim, minor rubbing to the gilt.