Description:
Chinese export porcelain globular-shaped teapot with a 'married' cover decorated in the Famille rose palette of iron red, blue, pink, turquoise, black, gilding with the crest and arms of the Holburne family, Baronets of Nova Scotia. The arms were recorded in 1755 as "Quarterly five and fourth gules a fess humettee between three crescents or second and third argent (here 'or') a orle gules; and the crest as "a demi lion rampant holding a mullet argent." The motto reads: "Decus summum virtus" or "Virtue the chief ornament." This teapot is part of a service that was made probably for Admiral Sir Francis Holburne who married in 1750, Frances, daugher of Gregory Ball of Barbados, widow of Edward Lascelles, Collector of Customs in Barbados and father of 1st Earl of Harewood. That service is decorated with a view of Fort St. George, Madras, and rim panels of Whampoa Anchorage with a tall pagoda on the left, and Plymouth Sound with the Plymouth Lighthouse on the right; Plymouth was the normal departure port for ships leaving England, and Whampoa Anchorage, the destination for ships bound for Canton. These are from vignettes probably designed by then First Lieutenant Piercy Brett (1709-1781) during the 1740-1744 circumnavigation led by Commodore George Anson (1697-1762), which appear on a circa 1743 service made for Anson. Brett was Anson's official artist during the voyage; many of Brett's drawings were used as the basis for the engravings in "Anson's Voyages," published in 1748. A plate from this service is in the Reeves Center Collection at Washington and Lee University, and according to David S. Howard, a number of other pieces of this tea service are in the Holburne of Minstrie Museum in Bath, England. The unmatched, domed cover, which has a different porcelain body than the pot and polychrome floral sprays that differ from the gilt floral sprays on the pot, has a gilt acorn knop and gilt spearhead border. The pot has four vertical gilt floral sprays outlined in iron red enamel, one on each side of the coil handle and straight, upturned spout, a gilt spearhead border outlined in black around the gilt-edged rim, and large C-shaped coil handle.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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