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Chinese Export armorial porcelain soup plate, Snodgrass


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A Chinese Export porcelain soup plate made for the English market. Chia Ch'ing, c.1800. This plate is decorated with a double banded underglaze blue border with spearheads and diapers, and with a central family armorial, painted in polychrome enamels, of the arms of Thomas Snodgrass, who was in the service of the East India Company, of Madras and Blackheath in Kent. He was granted these arms in 1799. An example from this service is in the permanent collection of the Winterthur Museum, Delaware. Circa 1800. Size: 9.5" diameter. Condition: wear to gilded accents commensurate with age, tight half inch hairline at rim, star craze to glaze on underside only. Arms: Or three trefoils slipped vert in pale between two pallets wavy sable and in fess two crescents gules; crest, A lion's head erased, party per pale or and vert crowned gules charged with three trefoils countercharged; motto, 'Beata Petamus Arva.' (See David Howard, "Chinese Armorial Porcelain" for an example).