Lot Essay
The arms are those of Izod, of Gloucestershire and Co. Kilkenny. See D.S. Howard, op.cit., p.237, where the author suggests that this service may have been made for the daughter of Henry Izod. A plate from this service in the British Museum was exhibited Ancient Chinese Trade Ceramics, National Museum of History, Taipei, 1994, Catalogue no.94; another was exhibited Enamelled Polychrome Porcelain of the Manchu Dynasty, O.C.S., 1951, no.140. See also the plate, originally in the G. W. Marshall Collection, sold in these Rooms, 23 October 1978, lot 96, illustrated in the frontispiece.