A CHINESE EXPORT HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY ARMORIAL OVAL DISH JIAQING PERIOD, CIRCA 1800

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painted with the arms of the Honourable East India Company, within a salmon-pink and brown border Length 27cm Davidson Collection no: 12 Provenance: Chez Bill. A copy of the invoice is available This dish features the coat of arms of the Honourable East India Company which bears the motto 'Auspicio regis et senatus Angliae' ('By right of the king and the senate of England'). This coat of arms was adopted for use by the Company in 1709. The Honourable East India Company (known officially as 'United Company of Merchants of En- gland Trading to the East Indies') was formed in 1708 after the merger of the first English East India Company (incorporated by royal charter in 1600) with a rival East India Company (established in 1698). According to David Sanctuary Howard (1928 - 2005), author of 'Chinese armorial porcelain' (1974), this dish was part of a service that was ordered for use by East India Company officers in Bombay and Madras, possibly to celebrate the bi-centenary of the 'new' East India Company or of the merger of the two Companies a decade later. Dishes of a similar design were recovered from The Diana, a merchant ship of the Honourable East India Company trading between Canton and India, and which had wrecked in the Malacca Strait on 4 March 1817. A similar dish is held by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, accession no 335J-1898 and another in the Collection of the National Museum of Singapore, 023-00254 TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE

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