Estimate

5.000 - 8.000

Session 1

19 April 2017

Hammer Price

Description

Chinese export porelain
Polychrome and gilt decoration at the centre with coat-of-arms of D. Luis Peregrino de Ataíde surrounded with profuse decoration with flowers, leaves and scrolls; flanked by bulls
Tab with floral friezes with cartouches and masks
6th Service
Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period, ca. 1720
(restored)

Diam.: 47,5 cm

Category

Porcelain

Additional Information

Some authors attribute the services bearing this coat-of-arms to the Italian family Marini, a wealth family linked to the merchant navy. After David Howard and John Ayers opinion this coat-of-arms is depicted in Pietro Marini de Barnabita's Ex-Libris, who was a proeminent figure of the Marini family that lived in the mid-18th century. They argue also that although it is possible to find Portuguese coats-of-arms with the salient bull crest and with the coat exclusively bendy, it is unknown any coat-of-arms with the these two details together, therefore it is not possible to assign these services to a Portuguese family
On the opposite side Nuno de Castro points to the pillory of Atouguia da Baleia where the Ataíde arms are repesented alongside a bull and argues that services of this size must have served D. Luis Peregrino de Ataíde and his direct family