Two Armorial Porcelain Plates with the Arms of Curzon and Campbell, Jingdezhen, China, late 18th...

Two Armorial Porcelain Plates with the Arms of Curzon and Campbell, Jingdezhen, China, late 18th century. The octagonal plate with notched corners painted in colored enamels with bead border surrounding European foliate scrolls and rosettes, the circular well painted with berry vine border surrounding two shields on a blue-enameled ground, the left bearing arms of CURZON, Argent on a bend sable, three popinjays or collared gules, quartering ASSHETON, Argent a mullet sable pierced of the field, with badge of a baronet, accollée with shield bearing the arms of COLYEAR, Gules, on a chevron between three wolves' [or boars'] heads erased argent, as many oak trees eradicated proper, fructed or, all below the crest of Curzon, A popinjay rising or collared gules; together with one 9 3/4-inch circular plate with shallow splayed rim and cavetto edged with trellis-patterned bands and spearhead border in underglaze cobalt, the well centering a shield inscribed with the initials 'D.S.C.' below crest possibly intended for CAMPBELL, A boar's head or, draped in ermine mantling, (octagonal plate) diam. 9, ht. 1 in. Footnotes: Provenance Campbell plate purchased from Simpsons Antiques & Imports, New London, New Hampshire, 12 September 1981. Literature The octagonal plate was probably made for Sir Nathaniel Curzon (d. 1804), 5th Baronet of Kedleston, Derbyshire, in 1759. David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain (London: Faber & Faber, 1974), no. M6, p. 380; p. 811. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing