A rare Liverpool delftware armorial plate c.1750-60

A rare Liverpool delftware armorial plate c.1750-60, decorated probably in Staffordshire in raised polychrome enamels with the arms of Cardonnel impaling Hilton, the cavetto with Chinese auspicious objects between a green trellis border, the rim with sprays of flowering Oriental plants, some wear, 22.3cm.

Provenance: acquired from Allbrook, c.1971.

Cf. David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, p.237, no. E4 for the Chinese famille verte original. It is presumed that this plate was made as a replacement or addition to the original service. Two other examples are known; one formerly in the F H Garner Collection and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum; the other sold at Sotheby's in 2006 as part of the Harriet Carlton Goldweitz Collection (lot 91). See also Michael Archer, Delftware, p.128.