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A RARE MASSIVE FAMILLE ROSE ENGLISH ARMORIAL EWER a number of families, and David Howard has suggested it might be
AND COVER Trelawney. The family of Archdeacon of Cornwall also has just: Argent
Qianlong period, circa 1765 a chevron sable; while Alfrey of Gulledge, East Grinstead, Sussex
Boldly enameled opposite the handle beneath the spout of the broad has: Argent on a chevron sable a fleur-de-lys of the field, which is very
pear-shaped body with a large coat-of-arms and crest, under a similar). It remains frustrating that no corresponding marriage has been
band of gilt spearheads at the rim, the sides and domed cover also found for any of these possible spouses for William, to precisely define
unusually decorated with the crest repeated. the original recipients of this handsome marriage service.
15 in (38cm) high
The ‘in pretence’ coat suggests a marriage with an heiress. The’
$3,000 - 5,000 Gentleman’s Magazine’ Vol. 36 (1766) has a marriage announcement
for William Richardson of Rotherhithe to a Miss Coulton, also of
乾隆時期 約1765年 大件粉彩描金英國理查森家族盾徽紋帶蓋執壺 Rotherhithe, but there is no corresponding coat-of-arms of Coulton.
Burke has Colton (sic): Sable, a saltire engrailed between four crosses
Published: crosslet or.
Cohen & Cohen, Hit & Myth, Antwerp, 2014-B, pp. 125-125, no. 71
William Richardson was the son and heir of John Richardson of
出版： Rotherhithe and Newdigate. William was a timber merchant, dealer
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Hit & Myth》，安特衛普，2014 and ‘chapman’ closely associated with ship building, so he would
年-B，頁125-127，圖版編號71 have had connections to the East India Company trade, and a desire
and opportunity to acquire a Chinese dinner service. By 1772 he was
The arms are those of Richardson of Rotherhithe (London), granted to declared bankrupt, and his estate at Milland, Sussex had to be sold
William Richardson in 1765 and gazetted as: Or three palettes gules, to pay creditors. The decoration on this service is quite simple but
on a chief embattled vert, as many lions’ heads erased of the first; the Howard 1974, notes that on the plates the four crests around the rim
crest as: out of a mural coronet or, a demi lion rampant gules holding all face the same way which he says is unique.
between its paws a guidon argent, charged with a slip of oak proper,
fructed of the first, the staff and tassels of the last. References: Howard, 1974, p. 481, a plate from this service; William
Cave (writing under the name Sylvanus Urban), The Gentleman’s
In pretence (i.e., representing the wife’s family) the arms are: Argent Magazine, Vol. 36, 1766; Tudor Craig, 1925, p. 77, a pitcher with the
on a chevron sable a mullet of the field, thereby identifying the family arms of Parker, and p. 73, a pair of pitchers and covers with the arms
into which William supposedly married as Mixfine of Cambridgeshire. of Mawbey impaling Pratt.
(However, if the mullet is ‘for difference’ then it could be representing

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