A CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL LARGE BASIN circa 1724

painted in the center with the elaborately mantled arms and crest of Sayer of Worsall quartering Woodhouse and Brooke within a gilt spearhead-and-dot border around the well and a cell diaper border on the cavetto reserved with four panels of fruit alternating with large stylized blossoms, the top of the rim with the crest surrounded by three sprays of fruit, foliage and flowers and alternating with small fruit vignettes within a floral and precious object border around the rim.  Some small chips under the rim edge.

Sold, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, May 14, 1997, lot 352

New York, International Asian Art Fair, 2002

Good condition, minor fritting/small chips under the edge.
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Howard 1974, p. 200, no. D2, illustrates a plate from this service; and Howard 1994, p. 123, no. 123, illustrates a covered octagonal dish.  A hemispherical dish cover from this service was in the collection of Dr. Robert A. Doyle, sold at Christie's in New York on January 23, 2001, lot 161.