Details
Each enameled in famille rose colors with the arms of MacDuff quartering Duff, Earl of Fife, surrounded by the mottos ‘DEUS JUVAVIT’ AND ‘VIRTUTE ET OPERA’, the sides painted with parrots and the reverse with a flower spray, a gilt spearhead band to the inner rim
278 in. (7.3 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Philip Suval, New York, 1950s.
Acquired by Annie Laurie Crawford, later Aitken (1900-1984) from the above.
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See D.S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, vol. I, p. 454 for a further discussion of this service and the family. The teapot illustrated by Howard also came from Philip Suval.

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