Large Armorial Porcelain Plate with the Arms of Hodges, Jingdezhen, China, c. 1745.

Large Armorial Porcelain Plate with the Arms of Hodges, Jingdezhen, China, c. 1745. Wide rim enamel-painted with three varieties of floral sprigs, including chrysanthemums and lilies, the cavetto decorated with gilt flower and scroll motifs inside a scalloped border, encircling shallow well centering a mantled shield bearing the arms of HODGES, Or three crescents sable, on a canton of the second ducal coronet of the first, below the crest, On a ducal coronet or a crescent sable, entwined at bottom with a banner inscribed, 'Utilis ab ortu' (Useful from the beginning), diam. 11 1/2, ht. 1 1/8 in. Footnotes: Provenance Philip Suval, Inc., New York, New York, 28 October 1981. Literature Commissioned by Thomas Hodges of Dorset, England who died in 1771 whilst Governor of Bombay, India. See David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain (London: Faber & Faber, 1974), no. G3, p. 300. Also see Sir Algernon Tudor-Craig, Armorial Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century (London: The Century House, 1925), p. 63. A plate from the same service is in the collection of the British Museum, (acc. no. 1887,1218.41; Franks.812.+). For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing