Armorial Porcelain Charger with the Arms of Chapman, Jingdezhen and Canton, China, c. 1735.

Armorial Porcelain Charger with the Arms of Chapman, Jingdezhen and Canton, China, c. 1735. The edge with gilt scroll-patterned band and spearhead-bordered cavetto enclosing rim decoration of three blue-enameled lobed reserves containing sprays of burgundy peonies, the well decorated with large mantled shield bearing the arms of CHAPMAN, Per chevron argent and gules a crescent counter-changed, below crest, an arm embowed in armour holding a broken tilting spear enfiled with a chaplet vert above banner inscribed with the motto Crescit sub pondere virtus (Virtue grows under hardship; or, The more it is depressed the higher it will rise), diam. 13 7/8, ht. 1 7/8 in. Footnotes: Provenance Oriental Furniture and Works of Art, Sale No. 6917, Christie's East, New York (28 November 1989), Lot 94. Literature A coffeepot from this service, presumably ordered by John Chapman (d. 1781), son of South Sea Company director Sir William Chapman (d. 1737), is illustrated in David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain (London: Faber & Faber, 1974), on dustjacket, and at no. G3, p. 125, 293. Note Pair of identically decorated 13 3/4-inch chargers and one deep dish from the Collection of Frederick Arthur Crisp were sold by Puttick & Simpson, London, England, 8-9 March 1923, Lots 59-60. Crisp, in turn, acquired much of the armorial porcelain from the Collection of Joseph Jackson Howard, sold by the same on 23 June 1902. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing