with a bold armorial on a circular shape, with gilt and iron red borders. 36cm diameter

P.B. Cooke Collection

The collection was started in the 1920s by Phil’s father – who bought at that time from Sir Algernon Tudor-Craig, the eminent London dealer and first author of a book on armorial wares, from his gallery ‘The Century House’ in Knightsbridge, which closed around 1929. Phil continued collecting, buying much from the collector/dealer Cecil Bullivant, and by the 1960s his collection had become the largest in the world. My late husband first met him in the late ’50s and his first volume of Chinese Armorial Porcelain illustrates 220 examples from the Cooke Collection.

Angela Howard

Thanks to Angela Howard of Heirloom & Howard Ltd. for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.

The arms are of Wyatt impaling Burrell. The service made for Richard Wyatt (1673-1736) of Nynehead in Somerset, granted these arms in 1725, who married in 1723 Frances Burrell, daughter of Peter Burrell of Langley Park, Beckenham. Their only son was born in 1731, and Richard died in 1736. This dish is illustrated in Howard; Chinese Armorial Porcelain, Volume I (1974), p. 219, but with additional information above regarding the attribution and marriage.