MATCHED GROUP OF CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL PORCELAIN TEA WARES
18TH CENTURY
Auction: Property from the Estate of Virginia Fortune Ryan Ogilvy, Dowager Countess of Airlie | Wed 3rd Sept at 10am | Lots 45 to 170
Description
with similar decoration in blue and gilt, comprising: five cups and three saucers decorated with the initials ‘JW’ within a shield-shaped cartouche surmounted with tied ribbons and flanked with gilt trimmed ermine; two cups and saucers decorated with the initials ‘JW’ within a shield and surmounted with a double headed black eagle; two cups and three saucers decorated with an eagle within an oval cartouche with gilt stars; five side plates centred with an eagle with spread wings over monogrammed initials, together with a pair of leaf-shaped dishes with a griffin armorial above a crest-shaped cartouche enclosing the monogramed initials ‘FAM’, 19cm long (qty)
Dimensions
five side plates 19.4cm diameter, cups approximately 7cm high
Provenance
Property from the Estate of Virginia Fortune Ryan Ogilvy, Dowager Countess of Airlie