Hyde Park Antiques: Past, Present and Future Part I

Hyde Park Antiques: Past, Present and Future Part I

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An Extremely Rare Chinese Export Famille-Rose 'Royal Arms of Scotland' and 'Order of the Thistle' Punch Bowl, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, Circa 1775 | 清乾隆 約1775年 粉彩蘇格蘭紋章圖大盌

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January 31, 05:43 PM GMT

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10,000 - 15,000 USD

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An Extremely Rare Chinese Export Famille-Rose 'Royal Arms of Scotland' and 'Order of the Thistle' Punch Bowl, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, Circa 1775

清乾隆 約1775年 粉彩蘇格蘭紋章圖大盌


the exterior intricately painted on two sides and the interior with the Royal Arms of Scotland supported by a pair of unicorns, the ribbon above the crest inscribed with the motto INDEFENCE, the ribbon below the supporters inscribed with traces of the motto NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT, all divided by two shaped cartouches decorated with exterior scenes of Chinese figures in landscape


diameter 15 1/8 in.; 38.3 cm

Private Collection
Christie's London, 17 April 1989, lot 142
David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, Vol. I, London, 1974, p. 505.
For the arms and illustration of the present example, see David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, Vol. I, London, 1974, p. 505, P22. David Howard records a total of eight depictions between volumes I and II of his seminal work, Chinese Armorial Porcelain. Six examples are described and illustrated in ibid, pp. 504-505, and two further examples are recorded in David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, Vol. II, Chippenham, 2003, p. 167, E17 and p. 224, K6. All examples are dated between circa 1750 and circa 1775, and the arms depicted appear to have copied one of two distinct source prints that are yet to be found. The present example is inscribed with the Stuart dynasty and Order of the Thistle motto, Nemo Me Impune Laccessit (No one can harm me unpunished) which suggests that the present work was likely presented to the Order by the Knights of the Thistle.