Lot Essay
From a service made for the Cuban Marquis de Almendares Ignacio Herrera, enobled in 1842. Owner of coffee and sugar plantations, railroads and textile mills, Herrera hailed from an exalted Spanish family. See H., P. and N. Schiffer, China for America, Export Porcelain of the 18th and 19th Centuries, p. 184.