Description:
One of two Chinese export porcelain round deep, scalloped-edge soup plates decorated in the Famille rose palette of pink, rose, black, brown, yellow, green, blue, and gilding. There is some confusion about the coat of arms in the center well, which Howard listed as Dawson impaling Fermor (?) in "Chinese Armorial Porcelain", Volume 1. He said that: "The arms are intended for Dawson, which should be blazoned 'Azure, on a bend engrailed or three martlets gules,' impaling possibly Fermor, which should be 'Argent, a fess sable between three lions' heads erased gules.' This latter attribution is so far from being what is painted that there must be grave doubt, but the service is reputed to have been made for Thomas Dawson, who married in 1754 Anne Fermor, daughter of the Earl of Pomfret. Thomas Dawson was created a baron in 1770. A George Dawson was a Member of the Council of Fort St. George in 1751. The sinister coat would appear more probably to be for the family of Woolf [or Wolf] of Bridlington in Yorkshire, ":Argent a chevron sable between three wolves' heads erased gules, ducally gorged or." The crest is a beagle-shaped dog with a red tongue, upturned tail, and four feet on the ground; Fairbairn's shows a similar dog, but with its right paw raised, listed for a number of famlies, including Dawson. The arms are supported by two loosely-clad women and framed with rococo scrolls and flower heads. The outside well has two large budding lotus branches growing from brown horizon ground; the top of curvature has a gold wave and dot band. The bronw-edged rim is encircled with two groups of brown branches of pink-spotted pale green peaches alternating with two rose sprays.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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