Armorial Porcelain Chocolate Pot with the Arms of Martin, Jingdezhen, China, c. 1716.

Armorial Porcelain Chocolate Pot with the Arms of Martin, Jingdezhen, China, c. 1716. Globular body on short foot continues to tall gallery neck pierced behind an applied ogee spout, each side of bowl depicting the arms of MARTIN in Chinese Imari palette with incorrect tinctures, Or [Argent] three pales azure on a chief gules [azure] three martlets of the field [or], and a crest 'intended for A martin passant', the ground filled with symmetrical floral vine motifs, wd. 4 1/2, dp. 3 1/2, ht. 5 5/8 in. Footnotes: Provenance Heirloom & Howard, London, England, 10 June 1985. Literature From a service commissioned by Capt. Matthew Martin (d. 1749), of Alresford Hall, Colchester, England, who was captain of the East India Company ship Marlborough and later a director of the Company. See David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain (London: Faber & Faber, 1974), p. 80-1. At no. B1, p. 176-7, Howard illustrates a matching chocolate pot from a 1968 Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue. A plate from the service is in the collection of the British Museum (acc. no. Franks.758.+). For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing