Dish with IHS monogram, armillary sphere, and Portuguese royal arms, ca. 1520–40, Chinese, for Portuguese market, Hard-paste porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue decoration (Jingdezhen ware), Overall: 3 3/4 × 20 3/4 in. (9.5 × 52.7 cm), Ceramics-Porcelain-Export, While the doglike lions illustrate a Chinese theme, the Portuguese coat of arms and the armillary sphere (a type of celestial globe) are often found on works made for Portugal in the early sixteenth century
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Dish, IHS monogram, armillary sphere, Portuguese royal arms, ca, 1520–40, Chinese, market, Hard-paste porcelain, underglaze cobalt blue decoration, Jingdezhen ware, Overall, 3 3/4, 20, 9.5, 52.7 cm, Ceramics-Porcelain-Export, doglike lions illustrate, Chinese theme, coat, arms, type, celestial globe, works, Portugal, early sixteenth, century
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