Armorial Porcelain Plate with the Arms of Walker, Jingdezhen, China, c. 1712.

Armorial Porcelain Plate with the Arms of Walker, Jingdezhen, China, c. 1712. The splayed rim painted in Chinese Imari enamels to depict foliate scrolls alternating with four circular reserves depicting the crest of WALKER, The sun rising in clouds all proper, outside a cavetto border of alternating blue lotus and red blossoms on a rouge-de-fer ground, the well centering a circular medallion containing a symmetrically mantled and scrolled shield bearing the arms, Argent on a chevron sable between three pellets as many crescents of the field, with restoration to the gilding and black enamel of the well ornament and plate edge, diam. 8 3/4, ht. 1 in. Footnotes: Provenance Collection of Dr. M. Bonner Engelhardt, Chinese Export Porcelain and Ceramics of American Interest, Sotheby's, New York, New York (25 January 1989), Lot 327. Literature Probably made for Dr. William Walker of Bushey, Hertfordshire, England. See David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain (London: Faber & Faber, 1974), no. B2, p. 177. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing