Armorial Porcelain Octagonal Soup Plate with the Arms of Lindsay, Jingdezhen, China, c. 1750.

Armorial Porcelain Octagonal Soup Plate with the Arms of Lindsay, Jingdezhen, China, c. 1750. The notched octagonal plate having finely potted splayed rim painted in colored enamels with various sprigs of lotus, chrysanthemums, and plum blossoms, outside a gilt spearhead border encircling the deep cavetto, the well centering an oval shield bearing the arms of LINDSAY, Gules a fess chequy azure and argent between in chief three mullets and in base a mascle of the third [or], mantled and festooned with floral garlands below the crest, An ostrich argent holding in its beak a key, and a pink banner inscribed, '[P]atientia vincit' (Patience conquers) in black, diam. 8 3/4, ht. 1 1/2 in. Footnotes: Literature Probably made for George Lindsay (d. 1764) of Payetston, Scotland. David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain (London: Faber & Faber, 1974), no. P21, p. 496. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing