Description:
Chinese export porcelain round soup plate decorated in lime green, orange, rose, blue, yellow, black, white, brown, iron red, and gilding, with depressed rim and flared edge. The center well has a roundal with "A demi griffin salient or, collared", a crest used by Collen or Collin (with the collar azure), and by a number of branches of Collins (with the collar ermine and vert). If the griffin is argent, it is borne by Zeal, originally of Devon. Recorded in the 15th century and earlier, the families of Collins are descended from Hereford and Shropshire and also found in London, Kent and Sussex. The service may have been made for John Stratford Collins (d. 1859) who inherited the estate of Wythall Walford in Hereford from his father in 1809 and married Edith Jones of Cleve in 1814. However, this service could have been made for another Collins with this crest. The roundel is encircled with a blue and gilt floral garland; the rim has an elaborate lime green, blue, and gilt design with a Japanesque meander pattern, oversize orange Meissen-like scrolls, rose and gilt floral swags, and four reserves with exotic birds and flowering branches.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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