A pair of Canton armorial dinner plates, Qing dynasty, 19th Century ca 1855.
Diameter 20 cm.
Wear.
Provenance
The Collection of Carl Kempe, thence by descent.
The arms are of Bowring. Presumably for Lewin-Bentham Bowring, who entered the East India Company and became the Chief Commissioner of Mysore and Coory.
Literature
Howard, David Sanctuary; Chinese Armorial Porcelain Vol II, page 684.
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