CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL LARGE BASIN CIRCA 1750

with the arms of Parker quarterly with Strong in pretence. 

Collection of Mr. Preben (Peter) Messerschmidt, Copenhagen.

There is considerable fritting to the glaze on the rim edge. There is a small restored chip to the underside of the rim and a 3 inch haircrack running from the rim towards the cavetto.
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For the arms see David S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, Vol. I, p. 582, R1, where the author illustrates an identical basin from the Cecil Bullivant Collection.