Description
PAIR OF CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL PORCELAIN CHARGERS
YONGZHENG, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
centrally painted with King coat of arms, with geometric bands, the borders painted with auspicious items and flowering urns (2)
35cm diameter
Footnote
Note:
The arms are of King impaling Seys for Peter King, 1st Baron King of Ockham, and his wife Anne, daughter of Richard Seys of Boverton, Glamorgan. They married in 1704. These plates were produced circa 1726 and are the remaining pair from a once larger and now dispersed service.
Literature:
Howard, David S., Chinese Armorial Porcelain, 1974, D2.
Provenance: Torridon House, Home of The Earls of Lovelace. Click here for further information: http://bit.ly/1MmigxQ