Saucer, Qianlong c.1755, with Chinese scene and a European cypher
Saucer, c.1755, finely potted and decorated, with a scene of a Chinese couple on a terrace in a mountainous landscape, the lady holding a flower. Although not armorial, it is personalised with an elaborate gilt cypher.
This scene conforms with Style K6 in the two volumes of Chinese Armorial Porcelain which lists only 15 services in the 1745-55 period with similar domestic scenes; of these just two services have an identical scene. These have the arms of ’Woolf or Fermor’ and Horner, both illustrated together on p.252 of Volume II. The latter is particularly
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