Details
Comprising:
A mug with a coat-of-arms, almost certainly for Woodrouffe family of Barnstaple, Devon, 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
534 in. (14.5 cm.) high, the largest
Provenance
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.

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