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Very large porcelain dish with a heraldic design for the Ita…
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Very large porcelain dish with a heraldic design for the Ita…
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,200 - €1,800
Voluntary lot
Description
Very large porcelain dish with a heraldic design for the Italian-Spanish market (Cantelmo-Stuart). China. Qianlong period (1736–1795), circa 1750. This very large dish is decorated in ‘Famille Rose’ enamels, with cascading flowers on the rim and a chain motif on the body. In the centre are painted the coat of arms attributed to the Cantelmo-Stuart family: Or, a lion Gules, a lambel Azure with three pendants over all. Dimensions: 41 cm. Two chips along the rim.
The commission is attributed to Joseph
Cantelmo, Prince of Pettorano and Duke of Popoli. Joseph
Cantelmo-Stuart belonged to the last generation
of one of the great feudal families of the Kingdom of
Naples. The Cantelmos, of French/Provençal origin,
had been established in the kingdom since the 13th century
and had amassed extensive estates in the
Abruzzo and the Terra di Lavoro. Joseph Cantelmo-Stuart
was a Neapolitan patrician, Prince of Pettorano, Duke of Popoli
and a First Class Grandee of Spain. He was a gentleman
of the Chamber of King Louis I of Spain and succeeded his father
in 1723; by 1724 he was recorded as a brigadier in the
Spanish Royal Navy. Upon the restitution of his estates in 1725, he continued
to live in Madrid in the service of Philip V. On 22 April
1717 in Blois, to Catherine de Boufflers (1702–1738), lady-in-waiting
to the Queen of Spain.
This commission, rare and previously unrecorded, is not listed in any publication
concerning Chinese export porcelain.
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Lot description modified on 10/13/2026 at 6:16 PM
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