1143. A Chinese armorial octagonal small dish, c.1770, decorated with the arms of William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, the rim painted with tied flower garlands, small rim frits, 16.5cm. £500-800


Provenance: the Clifford Henderson collection. Purchased from Heirloom and Howard in 1980.


Exhibited: English Ceramics Circle, Armorials Exhibition 2008. Label relating to this to the reverse.


This service was commission for the brother of King George III. Services for the Royal Family are rare in Chinese export porcelain.


1144. A good Chinese armorial soup plate, c.1735, painted with the arms of Sandilands quarterly impaling Hume, Pepdie, Polwarth and St Clair, the rim with two branches of flowering peony delicately enamelled in blue and gilt, 22.6cm.


£1,500-2,500


Provenance: the Clifford Henderson collection. Purchased from Heirloom and Howard in 1996.


The armorial on this plate is unusual in its number of quarterings, 21 in total, and is a coat of augmentation for Hume of Marchemont.


1145. A Chinese armorial small plate, c.1750, decorated with the arms of Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton, above a scene of three Chinese figures holding fans and practising calligraphy in a garden, the rim enamelled in blue, gilt and puce, 16cm.


£800-1,200


Provenance: the Clifford Henderson collection. Purchased from Heirloom and Howard in 1983.


This service was the first created for Augustus Henry, 3rd Duke of Grafton, great-grandson of King Charles II.


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1146. A good Chinese armorial plate, 18th century, painted with the arms of Christian Augustus, Prince von Annhalt-Zerbst and his wife, Johanna Elisabeth, Princess von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, the parents of Catherine the Great of Russia, 23.2cm. £1,500-2,000


Provenance: the Helena Woolworth McCann collection. Deaccessioned from the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The Clifford Henderson collection. Purchased from the Chinese Porcelain Company, New York in 1986.


Cf. John Goldsmith Phillips, China Trade Porcelain, pl.28, where this plate is possibly illustrated.


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