A good Chinese armorial soup plate c.1735

A good Chinese armorial soup plate c.1735, painted with the arms of Sandilands quarterly impaling Hume, Pepdie, Polwarth and St Clair, the rim with two branches of flowering peony delicately enamelled in blue and gilt, 22.6cm. Provenance: the Clifford Henderson collection. Purchased from Heirloom and Howard in 1996. The armorial on this plate is unusual in its number of quarterings, 21 in total, and is a coat of augmentation for Hume of Marchemont.