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Each enameled in the center with a different figural scene within a border of colorful dragons chasing flaming pearls, painted with the arms of Grant and motto CRAIG ELACHIE STAND FAST, comprising:
Eight saucer dishes
Twelve side or cake plates
An oval platter
1438 in. (36.4 cm.) long, the oval platter
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Lot Essay

The mottoes Stand fast and Craig Ellachie refer 'to the great hummock of rock overlooking the Spey at Aviemore, to which the clan rushed when beacon fires were lit'. See D.S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, I, p. 242.

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