Details
Each piece with the arms of Wolney, an iron-red and gilt band of chain at the cavetto, the border with bamboo and flowers, comprising:
Four sauce tureens, covers and stands
Four sauce boats
Four lozenge-shaped dishes
Eleven octagonal platters in various sizes
Three tureen stands
Thirty dinner plates
Eight soup plates
Six side plates
1734 in. (45 cm.) long, the largest platter
Provenance
Philip Suval, New York, 1950s (as arms of Churchill).
Acquired by Annie Laurie Crawford, later Aitken (1900-1984) from the above.
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Lot Essay

Though this service has been misidentified as Churchill in the past, the arms are of Wolney. The Churchill name would have carried great weight in the 1950s in New York when this service was purchased as belonging to that family. See D.S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, vol. I, p. 385.

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