Asian Art II - 18th May 2016

Lot 726

A PAIR OF CHINESE ARMORIAL FAMILLE ROSE TUREENS AND COVERS 2ND HALF 18TH CENTURY Painted with...

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A PAIR OF CHINESE ARMORIAL FAMILLE ROSE TUREENS AND COVERS

2ND HALF 18TH CENTURY

Painted with sprays of flowering rose dividing the arms of Rumbold impaling Law, all beneath flowering garlands, the handles modelled as twisted rope, 39cm. (4)

Cf. D S Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain Vol.I, p.361, M1 and p.366, M3.

This is one of three services with the arms of Governor Thomas Rumbold of Madras. He married in 1772 Joanna, daughter of Edmund Law, Bishop of Carlisle, and was in 1779 created a baronet, being both a Director of the Hon. East India Company and an MP. He died in 1791. The baronetcy passed to George Berryman, son of his first marriage who was Consul General in Hamburg.