Fine Porcelain and Pottery - 15th September 2015
Lot 298
A rare Philip Christian (Liverpool) armorial saucer c.1768-72
Estimate £150 - £250 | Hammer £220
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Description
A rare Philip Christian (Liverpool) armorial saucer c.1768-72, painted in polychrome enamels with the arms of Brougham impaling Lamplugh, a chevron with three lucies, and a cross flory surmounted with a crest of a hand and arm in armour holding a further lucie, 15.4cm.
Cf. ECC Transactions, Vol. 18, No. 3 (2004), Colin Handley, A Critical Consideration of an Armorial Teapot and Stand, which discusses the arms found on this service as probably being for the planned marriage between Peter Brougham and his second cousin Elizabeth Falconer, who died in 1769 before any marriage could go ahead. The service passed to Peter Brougham's niece, Mary Ballantine-Dykes whose descendants eventually sold the service in January 2001.