Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1715-1722 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,
Subjects:heraldry
Dimensions:Diameter: 35.80 centimetres Height: 4.70 centimetres Weight: 1.05 kilograms
Description:
‘Famille verte’ serving plate with an English coat of arms. This large plate is decorated with an elaborate coat of arms consisting of stars, crowned hearts and ships, with a ducal coronet above and supported by a pair of goats with golden horns and crowns around their necks, attached with chains. The crest is an oak tree with a saw cutting through it and the motto ‘THROUGH’. On the rim are four floral sprays, and in the cavetto floral panels on a flower-scroll ground, painted mainly in iron-red and gold.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall and Krahl 1994:The arms belong to the Hamilton family and their quartering reflects the family’s historical marriage unions with the families Douglas and Arran. The service was probably commissioned by Archibald Hamilton of Riccarton in Linlithgow (on the Scottish border), Governor of Jamaica, naval captain, and Member of Parliament from 1708 to 1747 (Howard, 1974, p.226. For a saucer in the same service). His youngest son, Sir William Hamilton – famous for being married to Emma, Admiral Lord Nelson’s mistress – is known to have used the service to which this plate belonged while Ambassador to Naples (from 1764 to 1800). This rare service can be dated to the late Kangxi period when rose-pink enamel was not yet in use.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,
Subjects:heraldry
Dimensions:Diameter: 35.80 centimetres Height: 4.70 centimetres Weight: 1.05 kilograms
Description:
‘Famille verte’ serving plate with an English coat of arms. This large plate is decorated with an elaborate coat of arms consisting of stars, crowned hearts and ships, with a ducal coronet above and supported by a pair of goats with golden horns and crowns around their necks, attached with chains. The crest is an oak tree with a saw cutting through it and the motto ‘THROUGH’. On the rim are four floral sprays, and in the cavetto floral panels on a flower-scroll ground, painted mainly in iron-red and gold.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall and Krahl 1994:The arms belong to the Hamilton family and their quartering reflects the family’s historical marriage unions with the families Douglas and Arran. The service was probably commissioned by Archibald Hamilton of Riccarton in Linlithgow (on the Scottish border), Governor of Jamaica, naval captain, and Member of Parliament from 1708 to 1747 (Howard, 1974, p.226. For a saucer in the same service). His youngest son, Sir William Hamilton – famous for being married to Emma, Admiral Lord Nelson’s mistress – is known to have used the service to which this plate belonged while Ambassador to Naples (from 1764 to 1800). This rare service can be dated to the late Kangxi period when rose-pink enamel was not yet in use.
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