circular with a bold armorial, painted in Famille Rose enamels with flower sprays and crest. 25.5cm 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 those of Wallace. It is unknown who ordered this later service, and there are some inconsistencies in the heraldry, making it difficult to know which branch of Wallace it may have been made for. This actual dish is illustrated in Howard (David Sanctuary), Chinese Armorial Porcelain, and would have originally come from Sur Algernon Tudor Craig.