Description:
Chinese export porcelain rectangular tureen with a domed cover with pomegranate sprig knop, chamfered corners, and two iron-red rabbit or hare-head handles, decorated in the Famille rose palatte of rose, turquoise, purple, blue, iron red, black, and gilding. The cover and tureen sides are decorated with two coats of arms of the Forbes family, "Azure a cross crosslet or between three bears' heads argent muzzled,"over the motto, "Altius ibunt qui ad sumna nituntur" (They will rise higher, who aim at the greatest things) encircled in a green wreath with a pink ribbon and flanked by floral sprigs. However, neither Howard's "Chinese Armorial Porcelain" or "Fairbairn's Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland" show the Forbes arms with this crest of an eagle looking to its left over outspread wings as shown on this tureen; and Howard shows a number of services with the Forbes arms in both volumns of his "Chinese Armorial Porcleain." The cover has floral sprigs on short ends and a chain of three blue horizontal bars interspersed with pink ribbons around the rim; the base has a band of double twisted green and turquoise ribbon with rose flowers.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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