Premier Auction - Session II - February 4, 2023
Sat, Feb 4, 2023 09:00AM EST
Lot 771
Chinese Export Armorial Porcelain Saucer and Plate, Hannay and Stokes
Estimate: $200 - $400
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
|---|---|
| $0 | $25 |
| $100 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $3,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
comprising: circa 1790, saucer centered with arms of Hannay of Kirkdale, shield left side with three black bucks' heads, impaling Meade, having a black ground with three gilt pelicans, divided by gilt chevron, the whole flanked by bucks, surmounted with a black crescent, below the arms is the badge of a baronet of Nova Scotia, the plate with blue diaper rim, 5-5/8 in.; circa 1795, plate arms possibly of branch of Stokes family, black border with gilt fleur de lis, with quarterly arms in pretense, iron red ground, white lion rampant with three white crosses, gilt chevron for Wyrrall, quartering white cross with four white fleur de lis on iron red ground for Ashurst, above the motto "Propositi tenax", the whole surmounted with a boar's head crest, within geometric gilt and cobalt borders 6-1/2 in.
Note: Hannay: "The Hannays of Kirkdale in Kirkcudbrightshire are a cadet branch of the Hannays of Sorbie, and acquired Kirkdale in 1432. Wiliam Hannay, who succeeded in 1716, had, with other sons, Samuel, Alexander, and Ramsay (and probably a daughter). Alexander fought at Minden and was later Adjutant General in India and Commander of the Army of the King of Oude, while Ramsay was a merchant, trading in India and China.
Samuel Hannay of Kirkdale, a London merchant and M.P., in 1783 succeeded, under a patent of 1630, to a baronetcy of a distant kinsman, Sir Robert Hannay of Mochrum. He had married Mary, daughter of Dr. Robert Meade and died in 1790, leaving an only son, in the service of the Emperor of Austria, and two daughters, the younger of whom married Captain Thomas Rainsford, Provost Marshall on St. Helena during Napoleon's exile, and from whom descend the family of Rainsford Hannay.
Chinese Armorial Porcelain Volume I, David S. Howard, Faber & Faber, 31 May 1974, p. 710.
Stokes: "William Ashurst was Lord Mayor of London in 1694; his son was probably Thomas, and in this family there was a baronetcy from 1688 to 1732."
Chinese Armorial Porcelain Volume I, David S. Howard, Faber & Faber, 31 May 1974, p. 768.
Provenance: Hannay saucer Henry Moog, Atlanta, Georgia; Christopher M. Weld, Essex, Massachusetts
Condition
each with spotting, discoloration, scratching, anomalies (as made), discoloration, chipping to foot ring, labels to base, accretion, chipping to rim; black light fluoresces and reveals hairline crack and in-painting to rim on Hannay, restorations to rim and hairline crack to Stokes
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