A BLUE AND WHITE AND ENAMELLED 'FITZHUGH' ARMORIAL PART DINNER SERVICE painted with four peony blooms and auspicious objects surrounding a crested coat-of-arms, the rim with an elaborate composite border comprising cash symbols, cell and lattice diaper, comprising:

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

細節

A BLUE AND WHITE AND ENAMELLED 'FITZHUGH' ARMORIAL PART DINNER SERVICE painted with four peony blooms and auspicious objects surrounding a crested coat-of-arms, the rim with an elaborate composite border comprising cash symbols, cell and lattice diaper, comprising:
Eleven dinner-plates, 25cm. diam.
Four soup-plates, 24.5cm. diam.
An oval dish, 33cm. wide
A pierced oval dish, 28cm. wide
A side plate, 13.5cm. diam.
(cracks and chips), circa 1800 (18)

來源

From the collections of Sir Egerton Graeme

拍品專文

The arms are those of Middleton or Myddelton. Cf. D.S. Howard, op. cit., p.975. This distinguished family of Royalists acquired Chirk Castle in 1660, but the title expired in 1718. A service of this style was also made for a family of this name in South Carolina: see Howard, ibid, Ch.3