YONGZHENG PERIOD, CIRCA 1735

For the arms, see D. S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, vol. II, London, 2003, p. 329, where the author explains that the scenes at the border clearly depict St. Paul's Cathedral and London Bridge, and the view of Canton is just downstream from the Hongs. See the similar plate in the Helena Woolworth McCann Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by J. G. Phillips, China-Trade Porcelain, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1956, p. 13, fig. 7.