Description:
Chinese export porcelain, rectangular platter decorated in underglaze blue on the rim with the crest and motto of the Scottish family of Udney of that Ilk and the motto, "ALL MY HOPE IS GOD." Robert Udney (1722-1802) was a West India merchant in London, and became the heir male of the Udney family in 1789. Robert had two brothers: George Udney was a senior merchant in Bengal in 1778, and John Udney was British Consul at Leghorn and Venice and married Selina Cleveland, daughter of John Cleveland, M/P. for Saltash and Secretary to the Admiralty. In 1812, John and Selina's son, John Robert (b.1779) married Emily, the daughter of Thomas Fitzhugh, director of the Hon. East India Co. after whom the Fitzhugh pattern was named. The well of the platter is decorated overall with a landscape of a Chinese village in a mountainous landscape, and bridge over a river and a man carrying two baskets hung from a yoke across his shoulder in the left foreground, and an adult and child in the right foreground.

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