Armorial Porcelain Charger with the Arms of Mann Impaling Guise, Jingdezhen, China, c. 1720.

Armorial Porcelain Charger with the Arms of Mann Impaling Guise, Jingdezhen, China, c. 1720. Wide, splayed rim edged in red and gold cell-patterned band, a peony floral spray motif in famille verte enamels alternating with branch of fruit blossoms and broken by crest of MANN of Linton, Kent, A demi dragon, wings endorsed sable guttée d'eau, inside of the wings and talons proper, the deep cavetto filled with red and gold lotus- and scroll-patterned band intersected by lobed medallions containing sacred object trophies, and flat well encircled by ornate ruyi and spearhead border to center shield in shaded gold scroll frame, bearing the arms, Sable, on a fess embattled and counter-embattled between three goats statant argent as many pellets impaling GUISE, Gules seven lozenges vaire, three three and one on a canton or [argent] a mullet pierced sable [gules], the underside of rim decorated with lotus flowers outlined in sepia enamel, diam. 15 1/2, ht. 2 1/4 in. Footnotes: Provenance Philip Suval, New York, New York, 26 October 1983. Literature Probably commissioned for Robert Mann (d. 1752) of Linton, Kent, upon his marriage to Eleanor Guise of Abbots Court, Gloucestershire, England. See David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain (London: Faber & Faber, 1974), no. D1, p. 191. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing