Chinese Export Ramsay armorial platter with mazarin 19th century
oval form scroll and ribbon border and two ornate inner bands centering arms of RAMSAY surmounted by banner with motto: Nil. Tim. E.; and fitted with mazarin.

Provenance: Purchased from Matthew and Elisabeth Sharpe, Pennsylvania in the 1970s.
Property from an Ohio private collection.

Literature: Howard, David. CHINESE ARMORIAL PORCELAIN. London: Heirloom & Howard, 2003. pp.185

Other Notes: George William Ramsay later became Governor of Antigua in the Leeward Islands (1816-19).