Description:
Chinese export porcelain rectangular, deep platter with chamfered corners in the Famille rose palette of white, yellow, purple, rose, blue, black, green, iron red, and gilding. The well has a gilt double chain around the coat of arms of Preston of Valleyfield House, Perth, Scotland, with the badge of a baronet of Nova Scotia in the center, over the motto "PRAETO UT PRAETEM" (I undertake that I may perform). These arms, with a baronetcy of Nova Scotia, were granted in 1637, and are copied from an identical contemporary bookplate in the British Museum: crest, "Out of a ducal coronet a unicorn's head proper; arms, "Argent three unicorns' heads erased sable"; supporters, "Two lions gardant or." The service was probably ordered by Captain Robert Preston, son of Sir George Preston who succeeded his father as 4th Baronet in 1741. Sir Geroge's older son, Charles, a military officer and MP, first succeeded his father in 1779. Robert Preston was captain of the "Asia" in the Hon. East India Company, who was in Canton in 1768, and was later managing owner of 30 East Indiamen in Canton between 1784 and 1802. Sir Robert succeeded to the baronetcy in 1800, and died without heir in 1834; the title expired in 1872 with the death of a very distant cousin. The underglaze brownish enamel rim is encircled with garlands of green leaves and multi-colored flowers tied with gilt and red ribbons.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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