A CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL OCTAGONAL LARGE BASIN AND AN ARMORIAL CHARGER CIRCA 1765 AND CIRCA 1755

the basin with the arms of Wilson; the charger with the arms of Dugdale. 

Collection of Mr Preben (Peter) Messerschmidt, Copenhagen.

The basin has extensive fritting to the rim edge, a shallow 1 inch chip to the underside of the rim and a very small chip to the upper edge of the rim. There is some firing grit adhering to the center of the basin, to the upper right of the arms. The charger has several very small shallow chips to the underside of the rim and on the front a polished patch of firing grit on the cavetto at approx. 6pm.
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For the arms on the basin see David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, Vol. I, London, 1974, p. 427, P11 and P. 378, M4 for the charger, but painted in enamels.