The arms are those of Elwick. Cf. D. S. Howard, op.cit., p.234. This service was made for John Elwick of Mile End and Cornwall, who was a director of the East India Company from 1713 to 1720. Cf. the larger dish from the same service in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; and another, illustrated in colour by C. Le Corbeiller, op.cit., no.22, pp. 50 and 51, where the author discusses the introduction in the Yongzheng period of using black for figure and landscape drawing and combining it with gilding as secondary decoration in the well and border