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9. Famille rose armorial dish, decorated with the arms of Lawson impaling Jessop with the Lawson crest, painted in the
centre with a open winged standing peacock displaying his tail feathers in a ruyi-head border medallion, encircled by
five reserves, four with birds perched amongst flowering peony and camellia, the fifth reserve with the arms above a
flowering chrysanthemum, all on a gilt diaper linked ground.
12 ½ inches, 31.8 cm diameter.
Yongzheng, circa 1730.
• From the collection of the late Alfred Morrison, Esq.
• From the collection of the Rt. Hon. The Lord Margadale of Islay, T. D., removed from Fonthill House, Tisbury,
Wiltshire.
• Sold by Christie’s London in their auction of The Morrison Collection of Chinese Porcelain and Enamels, 18th October
1971, lot 21, p. 13, pl. 3.
• From the collection of Jaques & Galila Hollander, Belgium.
• The Lawson family originally came from Scarborough in Yorkshire and are recorded there in the reign of Henry III.
From the same district came Sir John Lawson, who in the seventeenth century, rose from originally being a sailor,
to the rank of Vice Admiral. Richard Lawson, born in 1697, was Mayor of York in 1741 and 1754. He married
Barbara, daughter of the Revd. Thomas Burton of Halifax by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Jessop of Broom
Hall. His son was the Revd. Marmaduke Lawson, a Prebendary of Ripon, born in 1749. The service may have been
delivered by Captain John Lawson of the East Indiaman, Frances in 1730.

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