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A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL CIRCULAR BASIN FOR Alexander, a Brigadier-General in the British army, had sided with the
THE SCOTTISH FAMILY GRANT OF LUSS Government to help suppress the Jacobite uprising against the new
Qianlong period, circa 1740 English monarch King George 1 of Hanover in 1715, but by 1717 the
Centrally enameled in brilliant colors with a large coat of arms depicting unfortunate Alexander had clearly suffered a serious mental breakdown
two ‘wildmen’ with clubs flanking the shield shaped arms and a military of some kind, being described as “under the care of the physician of
helm, all between two scrolls bearing the family mottoes ‘Craig Elachie’ Bedlam and in iron cuffs”.
and ‘Stand Fast’, the cavetto with four cartouches of gilt ribboned
emblems reserved on a cell-pattern band, the border with the family Sir James Grant was elected as MP for Invernessshire between 1722-
crest centrally above the arms and surrounded by three long trailing 1741, and for Elgin Burghs between 1741-47. His eldest son inherited
flower sprays at the compass points. the Grant titles, and his second son Ludovic inherited the Colquhoun
15 1/2in (39.3cm) diam titles. That simple succession planning failed when the eldest son
died, and Ludovic became a Grant again. The Colquhoun titles and
$4,500 - 7,000 land instead passed to Sir James’ third son, also named James, who
proceeded to build a famous country house called Rossdhu on the
乾隆時期 約1740年 粉彩礬紅蘇格蘭Grant of Luss家族盾徽大盤 banks of Loch Lomond, where with his wife Lady Helen Gordon he
entertained the British literary lion Dr Samuel Johnson and his Scottish
Published: biographer James Boswell during their famous tour of the Highlands in
Cohen & Cohen, Hit & Myth, Antwerp, 2014-B, pp. 114-115, no. 66 1773, faithfully documented by Boswell.
出版： During the 1745 rebellion Sir James remained in London, advising his
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Hit & Myth》，安特衛普，2014 son “to stay at home, take care of his country and join no party”. Ann
年-B，頁114-115，圖版編號66 Colquhoun was descended from the famous Sir John Colquhoun,
created a Baronet of Nova Scotia in 1625, who married a daughter of
This service was ordered by Sir James Grant, 6th Baronet of Luss the Earl of Montrose but in 1632 he absconded to Italy with his wife’s
(1679-1747), who inherited the Baronetcy from his father-in-law in sister and in his absence was accused of witchcraft and sorcery.
1718.
Sir James Grant’s great-grandson, James Ludovic, was Captain of the
The future Sir James was the son of Ludovic Grant (1641-1714), 8th ship Brunswick which was in Canton in 1798 and 1802 but he died
Laird of Freuchie and 1st of Grant and Janet Brodie (c.1650-1697). in India in 1804. His brother Francis William Grant (d1853) ordered
In 1702, Sir James married Ann, daughter and heir of Sir Humphrey another Chinese dinner service in 1820 with these arms but without
Colquhoun of Luss and she bore him six sons and eight daughters. the badge.
Sir James had initially changed his name to Colquhoun in order to
inherit his father-in-law’s Baronetcy when Sir Humphrey died in 1718. References: Howard, 1974, p. 242, this service; and op. cit., p. 1002,
He changed it back to Grant in 1719, because he had become Chief for an example from the much later service commissioned in China for
of Clan Grant after his older brother Alexander died without heir. Francis Grant in 1820.

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