An export armorial part service


Kangxi, circa 1716Comprising two large graduating dishes, four plates, a bowl, spoon tray and tea caddy and cover, decorated in iron red, underglaze blue and gilt with flowers and foliage, and bearing the arms of Martin. The largest dish 39.5cm (15.5/8in) diam. (10).
|The service was made for Captain Matthew Martin, captain of the East Indiaman 'Marlborough', which was at Canton in 1716. See 'Chinese Armorial Porcelain', D.S Howard, p.176, no. B1.