Three Armorial Porcelain Table Items with Arms of Green and Campbell of Inverneill, Jingdezhen, ...

Three Armorial Porcelain Table Items with Arms of Green and Campbell of Inverneill, Jingdezhen, China, late 18th century. Assembled group includes a large tray with shaped edge lined with gold bead border on a light green enamel ground, the pattern repeating at top of oblate cavetto, the shallow well centering a floral spray surrounded with single-flower sprigs in colored enamels; one small underglaze blue-decorated tray with notched octagonal edge to splayed rim, lined with bead border and floral swags, broken at top to center the enameled crest of CAMPBELL of Inverneill and Ross, A boar's head erased or langued gules, below the motto, 'Fit via vi' (A way is made by labor), the initials 'J.C' inscribed beneath; and one 6 3/8-inch bowl on short foot, the interior edge cobalt-decorated with trellis-patterned band and spearhead border, the edge of well encircled by ring of light green enamel beads, centering a shield bearing the arms of GREEN, Argent a chevron ermine between three bucks trippant, on a canton gules a tower of the field, below the crest, A buck's head couped proper, and framed below by fronds supporting a banner inscribed 'Adsit deus confido' (I trust God is with me), (largest) wd. 13 3/8, dp. 10 5/8, ht. 1 1/4 in. Footnotes: Provenance Circa 1790 saucer with arms of Green purchased from Shreve, Crump & Low. Circa 1775 tray with arms of Campbell purchased from A.V. & M.R. Santos, London, England, 15 August 1985. Literature The small tray likely commissioned for Sir James Campbell II of Inverneill (1737-1805), see David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain (London: Faber & Faber, 1974), no. R8, p. 594. For armorial porcelain of Green, see Howard, no. V13, p. 719. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing