YONGZHENG PERIOD, CIRCA 1730

The service bearing these arms was probably made for Percyval Hart of Lullingstone Castle. See D. S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, p. 223, where the author explains that the service was probably made in two parts: the first order as in the first dish in this lot, and the second, with a slightly smaller coat-of-arms, and with the iron-red on the arms having been replaced by a thicker brownish-red glaze, as in the second dish in this lot.