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10. Pair of armorial large chargers, painted with the arms of Willes impaling Broster in black, green, blue and puce
enamels heightened in iron-red, sepia and gilt, encircled on the everted rim by a broad carved band of tiger lily and
chrysanthemum amongst branches and scrolling foliage.
13 ¾ inches, 34.9 cm diameter.
Yongzheng, circa 1735.
• From an important American collection.
• From an important South American collection.
• The arms are of Sir John Willes (1685-1761), illustrated by David S. Howard in Chinese Armorial Porcelain,
Volume II, no. Y1, p. 705, for whom this service and two later ones were made. He became Attorney General in
1733 and Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1737, having been an MP from 1726-1737. In 1718, he
married Margaret Broster of Worcester. His younger brother Edward Willes was Bishop of Bath and Wells from
1743 to 1773.
• Included by Marchant in their 80th Anniversary catalogue of Recent Acquisitions, Chinese Imperial & Export Porcelain,
Cloisonné & Enamel Wares, 2005, no. 69, pp. 114/5.

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