QIANLONG PERIOD (1735-1796)

James H. Giles of New York, an Artillery lieutenant in the Revolutionary army, had a bookplate engraved with these arms about 1783, adding the flag and motto to the arms of his Devonshire antecedents. The bookplate flag showed only stripes, but the slightly later porcelain shows the full stars and stripes. See Howard, vol. II, p. 482.