Description:
Chinese export porcelain dish in the Famille rose and Famille verte palettes in iron red, blue, rose, green, black, and gilding. The well has an ornate abstract gilt spearhead mantling over the arms of Burrell of Langley Park, Kent: "Vert three shields argent charged with a bordure engriled or", impaling those of Raymond of Saling Hall, Essex, "Argent three bars sable"; with the Burrell crest, "A naked arm embowed holding a branch of laurel all proper." The arms are over the motto "PER FLUCTUS AD ORAM."(Through waves to the shore). In 1723, Peter Burrell (1692-1756) of Langley Park, Member of Parliament for Haslemere (1722-1755) and Dover (1755-1756) and Sub Governor of the South Sea Company, married Amy Raymond, the daughter of Hugh Raymond of Saling Hall. The design of the mantling over the impaled arms suggests that this service was made for their wedding. It is also unusual for its combination of two enamel palettes, Famille verte (translucent enamels, predominantely green) and Famille rose (opaque enamels, predominately pink). The use of the artistically limited famille verte palette continued for about a decade or so after the introduction of the famille rose palette in the 1720s. The curvature has a wide diaper-like band with gilt flourishes and iron red lotus flowers interrupted by four reserve with red and green flowers. The rim has four large floral sprays in iron red, gilt, green, brown and blue, and a red and gilt diaper band around the edge. Underneath the rim are four iron red sprays of fruit.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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