$6,300
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Auction: February 24, 2022 10:00:00 AM EDT
Decorated with the arms of Boone, underside with double ring in underglaze blue with additional mark.
Dia: 17 in.Provenance
Heirloom & Howard Ltd., Wiltshire, England.
Acquired directly from the above, 2017.
Property of the late Gerry Lenfest, Gladwyne.
Note
This charger was made for Charles Boone, Governor of Bombay in 1716, who returned to England in 1720 and was later director the East India Company.
For example with similar pattern and the same armorial, see Christie's, New York, January 24, 2012, part lot 8.
Literature
David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain (Faber & Faber, 1974), Vol. 1, p. 179.