Description:
Chinese export porcelain octagonal soup plate decorated in rose, turquoise, iron red, blue, yellow, brown, and gilding with the Parker family coat of arms surrounded by flowers in the center well. The crest is "A dexter arm erect, vested azure, slashed and cuffed argent, holding in the hand the attire of a stag gules." The arms are of Parker, of Medford in Suffolk: "Sable, a buck's head cabossed between two flaunches argent." When Sir Henry Parker, the 3rd Baronet, died in 1771, the title passed successively to two brothers, his cousins, grandsons of Sir Henry, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Margaret, daughter of the Rt. Reverend Alexander Hyde, Bishop of Salisbury, and cousin of Edward Hyde, the 1st Earl of Clarendon. The 4th Baronet, Rev. Henry Parker, died unmarried in 1781, and was succeeded by his brother, Sir Hyde Parker for whom this set may have been made earlier. In 1734, Sir Hyde Parker, Vice Admiral of the Blue, married Sarah Smithson, daugher of Hugh Smithson of Northumberland (related to the founder of the Smithsonian in Wash. D.C.). Parker commanded at St. Lucia in 1780 and Dogger Bank in 1781; he was appointed Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies in 1782 and was lost in sea along with his ship and crew after sailing from Rio de Janeiro. Hyde Parker was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Harry Parker (d. 1812), the 6th Baronet. The well has a black-edged double gilt chain; the gilt-edged rim is decorated with evenly spaced floral sprays.
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