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A Chinese export armorial part dinner service, Qianlong (1736-95), the central arms of Watts impaling Carter surrounded by flowers and family motto 'Pour la Foy' on a cartouche below, with the crest of a greyhound holding a spear, each piece of octagonal shape within moulded 'basket weave' borders and blue cell pattern rims, comprising: Six rectangular serving dishes A stand for a rectangular soup tureen A cover for an oval vegetable dish Two Coalport replacement square vegetable dishes and covers Two lobed oval sauceboats and leaf shaped stands Sixteen soup plates Twenty-one dessert plates (53)
Provenance: Mawley Hall, Shropshire

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