An extensive Chinese Export armorial part dinner service circa 1785

each piece painted with the arms of Dalling with Foster in pretence above the motto AU BON DROIT within an iron-red and gilt husk band and underglaze-blue 'Fitzhugh' border on the rim, comprising: an oval soup tureen, cover and stand, two vegetable dish liners, three sauce tureens, covers and stands, a large circular bowl, a 17 1/2 -inch oval platter, a 16 1/2 -inch oval platter (lacking drainer), a 16-inch oval platter, three 13 1/4 -inch oval platters, an 11 3/4 -inch oval platter, four 10 1/2 -inch platters, two 11-inch reticulated oval stands, twelve hot water dishes, seventy dinner plates, twenty-eight soup plates, twelve breakfast cups and ten saucers, eight coffee cups and twenty-six saucers and eight pots de crème and seven covers. Together with a Chinese Export porcelain blue and white two-handled basket and stand, circa 1800, painted with pavilions in a river landscape and a similar basket, circa 1760, painted with flower sprays. Some wear and minor damage, breakfast cup handles added. 212 pieces.

The Collection of Marjorie Merriweather Post, Hillwood, Washington, D. C.

David Howard, op.cit., p. 683, no. U4, illustrates a dinner plate from this service, ordered by Lieutenant General Sir William Dalling, Bt. of Orval in Surrey, probably during his tenure as Commander-in-Chief of Madras during 1785 and 1786. It is interesting to note that while the coat is of Dalling, the crest and the motto are of Wyndham and derive from a maternal grandmother.