A Chinese Armorial Part Tea and Coffee Service
Auction Lot
FS23/334
A Chinese Armorial Part Tea and Coffee Service (FS23/334) offered in our Two Day Fine Art Sale starting on 8th July 2014 at our salerooms in Exeter, Devon.
Lot Description
A Chinese armorial part tea and coffee service decorated en grisaille and heightened in gilt with the arms of Templer within a foliate chain pattern border and a band of floral festoons, Qianlong, fifty three pieces, comprising: a large teapot, cover and stand; a coffee pot and cover; a helmet shaped jug; a milk jug; a sugar bowl [damaged]; lobed oval dish, 20 cm; a saucer dish, 21cm [damaged]; a bowl, 18cm [cracked]; a pair of bowls, 13.5cm [one cracked, one chipped]; six bowls, 11cm [one damaged, two cracked]; a pair of two-handled cups and saucers [one cup cracked]; six large coffee cups [one damaged, one cracked]; three saucers [two damaged, one cracked]; eight small coffee cups [one damaged, one cracked]; five teabowls [one damaged] and ten saucers [one damaged, one cracked] 53. (See Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, vol II page 237).
Notes
This service was almost certainly made for Charles-Beckford Templer whose father built Stover Lodge, near Newton Abbot, later sold by the eldest son James Templer to the Duke of Somerset Charles-Beckford Templer died in the loss of the East Indiaman 'Halsewell' in the late 1780s.
Provenance
By Direct Family Descent.
Department
Ceramics and Glass
Sale Information
FS23: Two Day Fine Art Sale
Tuesday, 8th July 2014
Wednesday, 9th July 2014
Okehampton Street, Exeter
This lot will be sold after 10:00am on Wednesday, 9th July 2014 as part of the Oriental and European Ceramics and Glassware section of the sale.
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