Armorial Porcelain Plate with the Arms of Alexander Quartering Bennet and Edmonds, Jingdezhen, C...

Armorial Porcelain Plate with the Arms of Alexander Quartering Bennet and Edmonds, Jingdezhen, China, c. 1726. The splayed rim gilded with patterned band surrounding three vignettes of flowers and fruit alternating with mushroom motifs, centering the crest of ALEXANDER, A talbot's head erased argent collared gules, outside the cavetto filled with rouge-de-fer and gold cell pattern punctuated by four oval reserves containing sacred object motifs, an ornate spearhead border surrounding flat well decorated with mantled shield bearing the arms of Alexander, Azure a chevron between three talbots' heads erased argent collared gules, quartering BENNET, Gules a bezant between three demi lions rampant argent, the unidentified arms, Or a fess sable in chief three trefoils slipped, and EDMONDS Or, a chevron azure, three estoiles of the field, all over a plain banner, diam. 9, ht. 1 1/8 in. Footnotes: Provenance Elinor Gordon, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 2 November 1980. Literature The service was probably commissioned by a son of Edward Alexander (d. 1751) of Chipping Ongar and Shenfield, England, and Levina Bennet of Babraham, Cambridgeshire. David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain (London: Faber & Faber, 1974), no. D2, p. 210. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing