Lot n° 141
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CHINA - Lot 141
CHINA
Large round porcelain dish decorated in blue-red, Imari gold with the Arms of Thomas Pitt surrounded by flowering trees.
Mark on reverse.
Kangxi period
D. 47 cm.
Thomas Pitt (1653-1726) was Governor General of Fort St. George and later of Jamaica.
He sold a 141-carat diamond to the Duc d'Orléans for the French crown jewels, on display at the Louvre since 1887, earning him the nickname "Diamond Pitt".
See David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, 1974, vol. 1, p. 176, and in color p. 114.
- Angela Howard, 'The Pitt Services: Porcelain for a Political Dynasty', American Circle Journal, vol. 18, pp. 50-81, similar plate illustrated on p. 54.
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