Armorial Porcelain Teapot and Cover with the Arms of Pitt and Ridgeway, Jingdezhen, China, c. 1720.

Armorial Porcelain Teapot and Cover with the Arms of Pitt and Ridgeway, Jingdezhen, China, c. 1720. Globular body on low foot with straight tapered spout, and applied handle, the interior lip ground to receive flanged cover, embellished with red and gold Kangxi flowers, and one side painted to depict full achievement with the arms of PITT of Blandford, Sable a fess chequy argent and azure between three bezants, with the arms of RIDGEWAY in pretence, Sable two wings conjoined argent, surmounted by the crest, A stork proper issuing from a crimson coronet, and supported by two sable eagles flanking a banner illegibly inscribed 'Amitie' (Friendship), wd. 6 1/2, dp. 4, ht. 4 3/4 in. Footnotes: Provenance Philip Suval, Inc., New York, New York, 23 September 1982. Literature From one of two services with Pitt armorials, this being commissioned by Thomas Pitt (d. 1729) of Blandford and First Earl of Londonderry, who in 1717 married heraldic heiress, Lady Frances Ridgeway (d. 1772). See David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain (London: Faber & Faber, 1974), no. B9, p. 184. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing