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Porcelain Sauce Boat and Undertray Bearing the Arms of Mercer, China, c. 1755. Oblong tray and sauce boat with shaped rims and gilt chain borders, the arms of Mercer displayed with crest of stork holding serpent beneath banner inscribed 'The Gift POUL' and underscored by banner inscribed 'CRUX CHRISTI NOSTRA CORONA', in center of plate and on frontispiece of sauceboat, conforming floral spray, bird, and shell motifs decorating marly and walls, (tray) wd. 10 1/2, dp. 7 1/4, ht. 7/8 in. Footnotes: Provenance Collection of Vartan and Armen Ghugasian, Watertown, Massachusetts. Chinese Export: A Boston Collection, Grogan & Co., Boston, Massachusetts (16 August 2023), Lot 23. Literature A matching plate with arms of Lawrence Mercer of Aldie, Pitteuchar, Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland (1657-1720) is illustrated in David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain (London: Faber & Faber, 1974), cat. no. Q2, p. 536. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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Porcelain Sauce Boat and Undertray Bearing the Arms of Mercer, China, c. 1755. Oblong tray and sauce boat with shaped rims and gilt chain borders, the arms of Mercer displayed with crest of stork holding serpent beneath banner inscribed 'The Gift POUL' and underscored by banner inscribed 'CRUX CHRISTI NOSTRA CORONA', in center of plate and on frontispiece of sauceboat, conforming floral spray, bird, and shell motifs decorating marly and walls, (tray) wd. 10 1/2, dp. 7 1/4, ht. 7/8 in. Footnotes: Provenance Collection of Vartan and Armen Ghugasian, Watertown, Massachusetts. Chinese Export: A Boston Collection, Grogan & Co., Boston, Massachusetts (16 August 2023), Lot 23. Literature A matching plate with arms of Lawrence Mercer of Aldie, Pitteuchar, Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland (1657-1720) is illustrated in David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain (London: Faber & Faber, 1974), cat. no. Q2, p. 536. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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