CIRCA 1785-90

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A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL SQUARE BOWL
Circa 1785-90
With canted corners, enamelled and gilt on two sides with the arms of Morgan impaling Wharton above the motto SEMPER IN BONA CAUSA PARATUS, and on the other two sides with the crest as three feathers below floral swags suspended from rings at a narrow gilt and iron-red band below the rim, the centre of the interior with a simple floral spray below green enamel stylised dart-pattern at the rim
9¾ in. (24.8 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

This is part of a service made in circa 1775 for Colonel James Morgan (1740-1808), who served with the East India Company in India. He married in 1774 Mary, eldest daughter of The Rev. Joseph Wharton, Headmaster of Winchester College. See D.S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, p.634. It would appear the present example was made at a slightly later date, with small design differences, such as the addition of the ostrich plume crest, possibly as a supplementary service or as a replacement. Other pieces from this later service are also known.

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