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Painted with the arms of Godfrey in famille-rose enamels within an underglaze-blue border set with a crest Diameter 21.7cm Davidson Collection no: 40 Provenance: Weld Collection Heirloom & Howard, XSCW259 One of five services ordered at this time by the family of Peter Godfrey, Chief Supercargo in Canton, Chief of Council in 1728. This service possibly ordered by Edmund Godfrey, who was supercargo on the Prince Augustus in the 1726/27 voyage season. See Chinese Armorial Porcelain, David Sanctuary Howard, London 1974, Vol 1, p.172, A5