Note: The Chinese porcelain is decorated with a pseudo-'Imari' design after an 18th century Worcester porcelain pattern, the original service was created for Hay, Earl of Errol. The arms are comprised of a Bengal Tiger and elephant flanking a shield with a pale blue ground on which two fish are above an instrument. The instrument has previously been suggested to represent a trawling net. The motto translates to (in part) '…mamlik (a title) Yamin el Dowlah, Behadur (powerful)'. For a saucer dish from the service and the translation of the motto: David Howard and John Ayers, <I>China for the West<P>, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London and New York, 1978, Volume II, pp. 475-476, no. 487. For a hot water dish from the service: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Helena Woolworth McCann Collection illustrated by John G. Phillips, <I>China Trade Porcelain<P>, London, 1956, pl. 109. A special thank you to Letitia Roberts for her assistance researching this lot and in writing the catalogue note.