Posted 2 years ago
vintagelamp
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Augusto Rato Potier
BIRTH 5 Jun 1903
Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China
DEATH 27 Dec 1964 (aged 61)
Santiago, Provincia de Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile
BURIAL
Cemitério da Guia
Cascais, Cascais Municipality, Lisboa, Portugal
Distinguished Portuguese career diplomat for over 40 years. Minister to Indonesia. Ambassador to Sweden, Pakistan and Chile. Died on post in Santiago de Chile. His remains were repatriated to Portugal.
Married to Alma Dato-Montero Potier
Daughter of Francisco Dato-Tessitore and Raquel Montero de Dato. Wife of Augusto Rato Potier. Beloved mother of Regina Potier Esteves and Gloria Potier Harrison. Distinguished watercolor miniaturist. See previous posting of her work.
Interesting being Chinese, the plates have Japanese dragons...
Him being Chinese origin, I meant
Oops I see the large picture now, has 4 toes. .Korean dragon
Fantastic engraved dragons
dav2no1,
Love dragons but don't know much about them!
Mr. Potier was just born in China because his dad was a diplomat also.
Newfld,
Thank you! Hope that you are doing well!