Pair of Armorial Export Porcelain Plates with the Arms of Hope of Craighall, Jingdezhen, China, ...

Pair of Armorial Export Porcelain Plates with the Arms of Hope of Craighall, Jingdezhen, China, c. 1795. The splayed rim and shallow cavetto edged with trellis-patterned band and spearhead border in underglaze cobalt, surrounding well centering the heraldic achievement of HOPE of Craighall, Scotland, comprising a shield with the arms, Azure a chevron or, between three bezants, below a crest, A broken globe, surmounted by a rainbow with clouds at each end, and banner inscribed 'At spes infracta' (Yet my hope is unbroken), supported by two female allegorical figures of Hope leaning on anchors and standing on a plinth with acanthus scrolls flanking the badge of a baronet, diam. 9 5/8, ht. 7/8 in. Footnotes: Provenance Sale No. 5001, Sotheby's, New York, New York (27 January 1983), Lot 231. Literature David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain (London: Faber & Faber, 1974), no. V12, p. 716. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing