Description:
Chinese export porcelain round plate decorated in the Famille rose palette in blue, yellow, white, iron red, orange, turquoise, rose, black, and gilding; the surface is covered in bianco-sopra-bianco decoration of vines leaves and flowers. The center well has the coat of arms of Parker, "Gules a chevron between three leopards' faces or," impaling Nesbit, "Argent three wolves' (?) heads erased sable (although this coat is not registered for Nesbitt). The coat is on a lozenge below a countess's coronet and supported by "two leopards refardant proper each gorged witha ducal coronet gules," The motto is "Sapere aude." The service was made for Dorothy, Countess of Macclesfield (nee Nesbitt) who was the second wife of George, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield (married 1752). She died without children in 1779; this service was probably made after his death in 1764. The well is encircled by a gilt spearhead border; the rim has four cloud cartouches, two with black and white Chinese landscapes and two with birds on branches, and a gilt spearhead border around the edge.
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