Description:
Chinese export porcelain octagonal soup plate decorated in Famille rose palette of yellow, rose, purple, blue, turquoise, black, white, and iron red. The center well has the coat of arms of Nicolas of Gloucester, Devon, Somerset, and Winterborne Earls in Wiltshire, granted in 1612, "Argent on a fess sable between three ravens proper as many lions rampant of the first." The service was made for John Nicholas of Winterborne Earls (see family account in Sir Richard Hoare's "The History of Modern Wiltshire", Vol. V, published in London between 1822-1843 in 6 volumns). The arms are in a gilt-edged shield suspended from a purple bowknot and surrounded by floral garlands, The well has a gilt spearhead border; the gilt-edged rim has four four sprays alternating with four floral sprigs.
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