Armorial Export Porcelain Teabowl and Saucer with the Arms of Frederick and Marescoe, Jingdezhen...

Armorial Export Porcelain Teabowl and Saucer with the Arms of Frederick and Marescoe, Jingdezhen, China, c. 1724. Both pieces raised on short foot and terminating in slightly everted rim, edged with various border patterns in rouge-de-fer and gold enamels, the walls of teabowl and the concaved saucer rim decorated with alternating sacred object motifs, the center and frontispiece depicting a diamond shield bearing the arms of FREDERICK, Baronets of Westminster, Or, on a chief azure, three doves proper, with arms of MARESCOE in pretence; impaling Marescoe, Azure three doves argent, marshalled for widow and heiress, Leonora Marescoe Frederick (1659-1729), (saucer) diam. 4 3/4, ht. 3/4 in. Footnotes: Provenance Sale No. 2615, Christie's, London, England (30 March 1983), Lot 169. Literature The service was commissioned by Leonora's son, Sir John Frederick (b. 1678), a promoter of the South Sea Company. See David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain (London: Faber & Faber, 1974), no. D2, p. 202. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing