Two Chinese armorial octagonal serving dishes Qianlong c.1755-75

Two Chinese armorial octagonal serving dishes Qianlong c.1755-75, decorated en grisaille with a central coat of arms for Templar within a spearhead border and a continuous floral garland to the rim, the smaller decorated in puce camaieu with a crest believed to be for Verelst above a central basket of flowers, the rim with bianco-sopra-bianco flower sprays, 32.5cm max. (2)

Henry Verelst of Aston Hall in Yorkshire became Governor of Bengal in 1767 and was a director of the East India Company in 1771. George Templar was in the East India Company Civil Service and owned Shapwick in Somerset.

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