A CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL JUG AND COVER circa 1725

the pear-shaped body painted on one side in underglaze-blue, black, white and gold with the arms of Burton of Leicestershire and Rutland impaling Hyde beneath the Burton crowned owl crest, and on the other side with a lotus spray supporting a gold gourd in a dish between famille-verte fan, prunus and fungus sprays beneath the spout, behind the handle and twice on the cover, the rim with a gilt floral and foliate-scroll border, and the lower body and ankle encircled by spearhead-and-dot bands  The spout chipped.

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, January 25, 1987

San Francisco, Fall Antiques Show, 1995

The pair to this jug is illustrated by Howard 1974, p. 194, no. D1, and was in the Cecil H. Bullivant Collection, sold at Phillips in London on March 22, 1988, lot 57.