Pair of Armorial Porcelain Soup Plates with the Arms of Templer of Shapwick, Jingdezhen, China, ...

Pair of Armorial Porcelain Soup Plates with the Arms of Templer of Shapwick, Jingdezhen, China, c. 1775. Each with notched octagonal splay rim decorated en grisaille with floral swags, a foliate chain border surrounding the top of a deep cavetto, the well centering a shield bearing the untinctured arms of TEMPLER, Quarterly azure and gules, the perspective of an antique temple argent, on the pinnacle and exterior battlement a cross or, in the first quarter an eagle displayed, in the second a stag trippant regardant of the last, below the crest, On a mount vert, a holy lamb bearing a pennant with cross of St. George, under an oak tree proper, fructed or, the rounded sides flanked by pendant floral garlands, diam. 9, ht. 1 5/8 in. Footnotes: Provenance Oriental Furniture and Works of Art, Sale No. 6917, Christie's East, New York, New York (28 November 1989), Lot 112. Literature Arms as described, but without motto 'Nihil sine labore', on a punch bowl commissioned by East India Company Civil Serviceman, George Templer (d. 1819) of Shapwick, Somerset. See David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain (London: Faber & Faber, 1974), p. 865. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing