Comprising:
A mug with a coat-of-arms above the motto VIRTUTE NON SOLE FLOREO, the sides with blue enameled flowers, circa 1790
A mug with the arms of Powell with Cleveland in pretence, the sides with two grisaille landscapes, a chain-link band at the rim, circa 1750
A bowl with the arms of Courtauld, a spearhead band to the interior, circa 1770
5³⁄₄ in. (14.5 cm.) high, the largest

Philip Suval, New York, 1950s (the bowl and larger mug).
Acquired by Annie Laurie Crawford, later Aitken (1900-1984) from the above.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 28-29 October 1988, lot 45 (the Powell mug, Mrs. Aitken notes this belonged to Sunny Von Bulow).
Acquired by Irene Roosevelt Aitken from the above.

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See D.S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, vol. I, p. 314 for a further discussion of the Powell service and p. 516 for a discussion of the Courtauld service.