A CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL LARGE PLATE circa 1720-30

boldly painted in the center with the arms of Thomas Pitt of Blandford, Baron Londonderry, with those of his wife Lady Frances Ridgeway in pretence above a banderole inscribed with the motto AMITIE, the rim with the stork crest beneath a baron's coronet between fronds within four oval panels alternating with gold and iron-red floral sprays, lingzhi (sacred fungus) mark within a double circle in underglaze-blue. 

The Phil B. Cooke Collection, England, no. 110
Heirloom & Howard Limited, London, December 3, 1982

San Francisco, Fall Antiques Show, 1995

3 mm chip under rim at 5:30, scratching to black enamel. PB Cooke Collection sticker
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A large dish from this service is illustrated by Howard 1997, p. 102, no. 119.  A plate is illustrated by Howard 1974, p. 184, no. B9; and another illustrated by Howard and Ayers, Vol. II, p. 406, no. 405 was in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Rafi Y. Mottahedeh, sold in these rooms on October 19, 2000, lot 280.  A pair of plates was in the collection of Benjamin F. Edwards III, sold at Christie's in New York on January 22, 2002, lot 227.