Four Portuguese Market Porcelain Table Items Bearing the Arms of Arms of António de Ara&#25...

Four Portuguese Market Porcelain Table Items Bearing the Arms of Arms of António de Araújo e Azevedo, 1st Count of Barca, China, c. 1800. Two dinner plates, one tea bowl, and one saucer, from set of armorial porcelain bearing the Count's coat of arms, which is depicted below a crown raised by two putti above a blue banner inscribed 'AD.ARAUJO' in gold, the cavetto decorated with a cell-patterned band and the concave rims painted with alternating large and small blue-framed medallions depicting agricultural and boating scenes in sepia enamel, (plate) diam. 9 3/4, ht. 1 in. Footnotes: Provenance Collection of Vartan and Armen Ghugasian, Watertown, Massachusetts. Grogan & Co., Boston, Massachusetts, Chinese Export: A Boston Collection (16 August 2023), Lot 84. The cup and saucer bear inventory labels from the collection of Helena Woolworth McCann (1878-1938), New York, New York, no. 359.53a and 360.53. Note Araújo (born 1754, Ponte de Lima, Portugal; died 1817, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), First Minister to Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil, is noted for establishing the first school of fine arts in Brazil, as well as his support of porcelain manufacturing in Rio de Janeiro. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing