QING DYNASTY (1644-1911), CIRCA 1725

Name: A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'ENGLISH MARKET' ARMORIAL 'MISTAKE' PLATE
Brand: QING DYNASTY (1644-1911), CIRCA 1725
Price: 4200.00 USD
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A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'ENGLISH MARKET' ARMORIAL 'MISTAKE' PLATE

QING DYNASTY (1644-1911), CIRCA 1725

Price Realised USD 5,250

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Finely painted in colored enamels and enriched in gilt, the center with the arms of Haldane between eagle supporters and above the motto SUFFER, all within a gilt and black border after a bookplate, the underglaze blue borders finely painted with bouquets of flowers
8⁷⁄₈ in. (22.6 cm.) diameter

Acquired from Heirloom & Howard Limited, Chippenham, Wiltshire, 2 September 1999.

S.M.Mueller, 'Chinese Export Porcelain Curiosities', Oriental Art, 2000, vol. XLVI, no. I, pp. 19-20, fig. 8.
D. Howard, A Tale of Three Cities, London, 1997, p. 97.
D. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, p. 917.

Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Errors on Chinese Export Ceramics from the Shirley M. Mueller Collection, 1 May - 24 September 2000.
Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Elegance from the East, 26 May - 22 October 2017.

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Lot Essay

Throughout the 16th to 19th centuries, Chinese artisans produced millions of pieces of porcelain for export to Europe and the United States, of which is now admired around the globe. What is often forgotten is the complicated relationship between the Chinese artisans and their English-speaking patrons, which resulted in thousands of pieces with mistakes due to instructions literally being lost in translation.

David Howard describes in , London, 1997, p. 97, a mistake on a service made for the Haldane of Gleneagles family, . As seen on the present lot, the armorial was painted by the artisan in the form of a bookplate. In their instructions, the Haldane family provided an example of the armorial on a bookplate, which is directly copied onto the pieces in the service, leaving the armorial enclosed within a border.