Description:
Chinese export porcelain round plate decorated the arms of Hamilton quartering Arran and Douglas with Spencer in pretence with a duke's coronet, the ribbon of the Order of the Thistle, and the duke's supporters, all surrounded by pink and white ermine draperies, in the Famille rose palette of iron red, black, purple, green, yellow and gilding. The 1st Duke of Hamilton descended from the third son of the 2nd Earl of Arran; in 1656, his second daughter, Anne, married William Douglas, Earl of Selkirk, who was created the 3rd Duke of Hamilton. The 4th Duke was killed in a duel in 1712; in 1737, his son, James, the 5th Duke of Hamilton (d.1743), married his third wife, Anne, daughter and coheir of Edward Spencer of Rendelsham. The Hamilton crest at the top of the rim has the motto "THROUGH" and "In a ducal coronet an oak tree fructed and penetrated transversely in the main stem by a frame saw proper." The arms are described: Hamilton, "Gules three cinquefoils ermine motto; Arran, "A lymphad sable with sails furled proper, flagged gules'; and in pretence Spencer, "Quarterly argent and gules in the second and third quarters a fret or, overall on a bend sable three escallops of the first." The Order of the Thistle badge depicts St Andrew carrying his cross encircled by the Order's motto "NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT" or "No one shall provoke me with impunity." The Order of the Thistle represents the highest honour in Scotland, and it is second only in precedence to the Order of the Garter. The rim has three large gilt floral sprays.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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