A Chinese armorial deep saucer or sweetmeat dish Yongzheng c.1730

A Chinese armorial deep saucer or sweetmeat dish Yongzheng c.1730, painted in underglaze blue with lotus beneath weeping willow to the well, the exterior with the crest for the Nicholson family in coloured enamels between blue peony sprays, 14.4cm.

The service possibly made for Christopher Nicholson of Balrath, High Sheriff of County Meath in 1735, or for Richard Nicholson, a supercargo at Canton in 1724.

Provenance: from the estate of the late Peter James Rankin.