Lot 178: A GROUP OF TWENTY CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL PLATES CIRCA 1740

A GROUP OF TWENTY CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL PLATES CIRCA 1740 each painted in the center with the arms of Tillard impaling West quarterly, comprising: four 10-inch plates and sixteen 9 1/4 -inch plates. diameter of largest plates 10 in., 25.4 cm

Philip Edward Tillard of Holme, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, England
Thence by descent to the present owner

This service appears to be unrecorded. A watercolor of a teabowl and saucer with the arms of Tillard impaling Clayton is illustrated by David S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, Vol. II, p. 336. The present service appears to have been made for Joas Tillard, born 1690, youngest son of Abraham Tillard of London and his wife Mary Bateman, who married on 2nd April 1726, Katherine West (died 1757). Sotheby's would like to thank Angela Howard for her assistance in the cataloguing of this lot.