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The porcelain body has been carefully and elaborately incised into the The arms are those of Cosme Damião Pinto Pereira, Fidalgo of
unglazed, leather-hard biscuit body with anhua decoration of lotus the Royal Household, Lord of the Quinta do Vale dos Moinhos and
and other flowers, before being dipped in liquid glaze and fired ‘in Quinta das Conchas in Lumiar, Lisbon. He was Captain-General and
the white’. As with all enameled armorial porcelain, the coat of arms Governor of Macao for two periods, 1733-1735 and 1743-1747.
is painted over the glaze and requires a second firing in a ‘muffle’ The quartered arms are Pereira, Pinto, Guedes and Pimentel. The
kiln at a much lower temperature, thereby materially increasing the cross in the Pereira arms commemorates Saint Nuno Álvares Pereira
manufacturing cost for the European who has sent to China his (1360-1431). The Governor of Macao ordered several Chinese export
bookplate or drawing of his family coat of arms. porcelain services from his relatively convenient local supplier of
Chinese porcelain, including some later orders which are enameled
with sprays of flowers. These monteiths are from the family’s earliest
and rarest service.