A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL CUSTARD CUP AND COVER

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL CUSTARD CUP AND COVER

C.1780

Painted to one side in enamels and gilt with a roundel enclosing the arms of Lawrence impaling Ilbery, set with an entwined strap handle, the cover decorated with a continuous foliate scroll encircling an applied finial shaped as a fruit, the underside of the cover with a paper label for Christie's, 23rd October 1978, lot 100, 9cm high overall. (2)

Provenance: formerly the collection of the late G W Marshall, sold at Christie's London on 23rd October 1978, lot 100.

Illustrated: D S Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, p.645.

The Ilberys were a merchant family of London, Reading, Calcutta and Biscay in Spain.