Lot 102 , A Chinese export armorial part dinner and tea service, Kangxi period, c.1720

A Chinese export armorial part dinner and tea service, Kangxi period, c.1720, each piece painted in Imari palette with the arms of Robert Chester, director of the East India Company, comprising five 22cm plates, a 24cm plate, a 16cm oval sweetmeat dish, a 10.6cm triangular sweetmeat dish and a tea bowl, saucer, 12.5cm and coffee cup (latter three items damaged)

cf. David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, Vol. I, London, 1974, p. 182, B6.
£2,000-3,000

Condition:
All items with some wear to the gilding and tarnish to the silvering on the crest. Five 22cm plates - One with a chip to the edge, two with tiny splinter chips to the edge, all the wave some operation to the edge of the foot. 24cm plate - glaze lost to the edge, springing to the underside, abrasion to the foot, small glaxe/firing faults. 16cm oval sweetmeat dish - glazed losses around the edge, decorated to the underside also. 10.6cm triangular sweetmeat dish - small glaze faults, splinter chip to the underside of one of the triangular corners, springing to the underside. tea bowl - broken in two sections of the rim messily reglued with some splinter losses around the area. saucer - several hairline cracks to the cavetto, a few tiny splinter chips to the edge. coffee cup - large crack to one side, small curved crack to the edge, and other glaze imperfections

Sold for £2,800