A BLUE AND WHITE ARMORIAL TUREEN WITH COVER, 'soft paste' porcelain decorated with a pair of entwined cranes standing on rockwork, with crickets in their beaks. Around the rim garlands with flowers and mussels. The cover with further painted garlands and a finely molded floral pattern 'anhua', Qianlong period (1736-1795), diameter c. 21.5 cmNOTE:Probably executed c. 1780 for the two Swedish cousins Adolf Ulrik (1752-1797) and Anna Johanna Grill (1753-1809) who married in 1778. The Grill family was not introduced in Sweden. They used the crane with a cricket in its beak as their coat of arms. The enlaced cranes on the service carries the thoughts to the alliance between the two members of the Grill family.