Enameled in the center with the arms of Dobree, under the enamel colors is visible the words 'green' and 'red', the motto SPE VIVITURalso incised into the enamel, four famille rose floral clusters on the rim, together witha coat-of-arms grant, dated 1726, now framed, and with original leather case
11¹⁄₂ in. (29.2 cm.) long, the platter

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Lot Essay

D.S. Howard (Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, p. 960) writes "This is an unusual example of the failure of the Chinese painters to understand the European instructions sent with the original drawing or bookplate....Only one other example of this type of error is known", and suggests that the Chinese may have been overly scrupulous with the order as the arms on a service made five years earlier for another Dobree had been painted incorrectly.