Armorial Porcelain Soup Plate with the Arms of Baker, Cholmley, and Bateman, Jingdezhen, China, ...

Armorial Porcelain Soup Plate with the Arms of Baker, Cholmley, and Bateman, Jingdezhen, China, c. 1740. Slightly concave rim painted in sepia and rouge-de-fer enamels to depict four varieties of floral sprays inside a scalloped border, the top of cavetto ornamented with gilded floral scroll band, encircling a deep well filled with mantled shield bearing arms of BAKER, Or a greyhound in full course between two bars sable, quartering CHOLMLEY, Gules a chevron argent between three helmets of the second, and impaling BATEMAN of Whitechapel, Middlesex, Azure a fess nebuly between three crescents each having an estoile issuing from between their horns or, all below the Baker crest, A cockatrice ermine combed and wattled gules, and above scalloped banner lacking inscription, diam. 9 ht. 1 3/4 in. Footnotes: Provenance Circa Antiques, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 28 October 1981. Literature At least four services with these arms were preserved at Orsett Hall, the Baker family seat in Essex, England. See David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain (London: Faber & Faber, 1974), no. G3, p. 294. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing