Armorial Porcelain Soup Plate with the Arms of Douglas Quartering Douglas Earl of Morton, Jingde...

Armorial Porcelain Soup Plate with the Arms of Douglas Quartering Douglas Earl of Morton, Jingdezhen, China, c. 1738. The splayed rim edged with gold spearhead border painted with alternating floral motifs in opaque white enamel, the deep cavetto painted with grisaille, gold, blue, and purple grapevine border surrounding the deep well containing full heraldic achievement of the Earls of Morton, comprising a symmetrical shield bearing the arms of DOUGLAS, Argent a man's heart ensigned with an imperial crown all proper, on a chief azure three mullets of the field, quartering the arms of DOUGLAS of Dalkeith and Lochleven, Scotland, Argent three piles gules, the dexter and sinister charged with a mullet or, supported by two wild men standing on a gold banner inscribed 'Lock sicker' (Be sure), below crest of a wild boar between two chain-locked oak trees issuing from a jeweled earl's coronet, diam. 8 7/8, ht. 1 5/8 in. Footnotes: Provenance David Orgell, Beverly Hills, California, 25 May 1982. Literature David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain (London: Faber & Faber, 1974), no. F3, p. 267. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing