Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

Two Chinese armorial plates, one Kangxi c.1720 and painted with the arms of Carter of St Columb in Cornwall, the cavetto with simple landscape panels reserved on a gilt and red diaper border, the other Qianlong c.1748 and decorated with the arms of King of Rockingham within a gilt spearhead border, 23cm. (2)

The first service was perhaps made for the Rt Hon Thomas Carter, Master of the Rolls and a Privy Councillor who married in 1719, while the second service is believed to have been made for Robert King around the time that he was elevated to the Irish peerage as Baron Kingsborough.

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