CIRCA 1780

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A FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL TEABOWL AND SAUCER
Circa 1780
Unusually enamelled with four beetles around the central coat-of-arms of Ouchterlony on a classical urn with nymph supporters forming the urn's handles, above the motto IAMAIS ABATTU (sic) below a border of floral swags suspended from a chain at the rim

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 March 1978, lot 89 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. J-28).

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Lot Essay

This service was made for Robert Ouchterlony of Scotland, whose family were kinsmen of the Ochterlonys who settled in New England; David Ochterlony was born in Boston in 1758 and became a Major General in the East India Company. The arms were copied exactly from a bookplate. See D. S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, p.620. See also D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain - Chine de Commande, London, 1974, no.280 for a similar cup and saucer.

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