A RARE ARMORIAL TEAPOT STAND

MID-18TH CENTURY

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A RARE ARMORIAL TEAPOT STAND
Mid-18th century
Finely painted with a Chinese interior scene showing a couple seated on silk-wrapped garden stools at a table, she holding an unrolled scroll decorated with the carefully delineated coat-of-arms of a lady and he poised with brush as if having just painted it, a second lady watching from beside a bamboo table topped with antiques
5.1/8in. (13cm.) wide

Lot Essay

From an undoubtedly unique tea service - made for an East India Company director's daughter? - apparently unrecorded. Bearing an old paper label printed THE CENTURY HOUSE/2 King Street, St. James, S.W.1 and inscribed in ink Ladies arms Benj. Torin, East Ind. Trade died 22 Aug 1784