António de Albuquerque Coelho de Carvalho’s Macao Platter

A rare (slightly chipped) Chinese blue and white armorial charger (ceremonial platter) with the arms of the Coelho family, Kangxi period, c.1715, incorporating a lion and seven hares, within bands of scrolling leaves and flowers. Formerly owned by António de Albuquerque Coelho de Carvalho (1682–1745) who held various administrative posts in the Portuguese colonial empire. Carvalho is believed to have received the plate while Governor of Macau from 1718 to 1719. He was later Governor of Portuguese Timor, 1722–1725.