A large Chinese armorial porcelain serving dish Yongzheng

A large Chinese armorial porcelain serving dish Yongzheng, c.1730, painted in the famille rose palette with the arms of Carter to the well, the cavetto with prunus spray panels reserved on a green diaper ground, the rim with peony sprays, broken in half and very cleanly repaired, 34.2cm.

This service was probably made for The Rt. Hon. Thomas Carter of Robertstown in Co. Meath, variously Master of the Rolls, Secretary of State and Privy Councillor.

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