Armorial Porcelain Plate with the Arms of Newman, Jingdezhen, China, c. 1715.

Armorial Porcelain Plate with the Arms of Newman, Jingdezhen, China, c. 1715. The nearly flat rim and well with underglaze cobalt-painted vines of chrysanthemum, peony, and other blossoms, the pattern broken at top of rim to center a polychrome heraldic display, which extends from the edge, over the cavetto, and into the well, the shield bearing the arms of NEWMAN, Azure three demi lions rampant argent guttée de sang, mantled to support the crest, A demi lion as in the arms between two wings expanded, two simple foliate branches painted in cobalt on underside of rim, diam. 8 13/16, ht. 7/8 in. Footnotes: Provenance One of three plates in American Furniture & Decorative Arts, Sotheby's, New York, New York (27 January 1983), Lot 231. Literature Commissioned for a member of the Newman family of Gluvias and Ludgvan, Cornwall, England. See David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain (London: Faber & Faber, 1974), no. A2, p. 165. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing