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Lot 366

A group of seventeen Cantonese Export gilt and enamel porcelain Dishes from a service made for Mir Akbar Ali Khan Sikander Jaf, Asaf Jah III, Nizam of Hyderabad
China, circa 1810
(17)

10 April 2008, 14:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £3,840 inc. premium

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A group of seventeen Cantonese Export gilt and enamel porcelain Dishes from a service made for Mir Akbar Ali Khan Sikander Jaf, Asaf Jah III, Nizam of Hyderabad
China, circa 1810

comprising 12 plates, 4 dessert bowls and 1 soup bowl, the centre with an oval medallion containing an inscription filled roundel, the cavetto with a gilt band, the rim with a frieze of leaf fronts and geometric design banding
the plates 25.5 cm. diam.(17)

Footnotes

The inscription: "It is worthy of the banquet of Sikandar Jah".

Sikandar Jah, Asaf Jah III, was the Nizam of Hyderabad from 1803-29. For a full biography, see Raza Alikhan, Hyderabad 400 years (1591-1991), Hyderabad, 1990, pp. 95-6.

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