Chinese armorial porcelain ashet with Sir Philip Gibbes' arms
A Chinese export ware porcelain armorial ashet, with arms of Sir Philip Gibbes, 1st Baronet (1731-1815) a planter in Barbados. Shield: per fess argent and ermine, three battle-axes in pale sable. Crest: an arm embowed in armour, garnished or, and charged with a cross couped gules, the hand grasping a battle-axe. Incorporating the baron's badge The Red Hand of Ulster. Motto: Tenax Propositi (Tenacious of purpose) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Philip_Gibbes,_1st_Baronet. His son emigrated to New Zealand in 1855, the baronetcy extinguished in 1940. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne-Gibbes_baronets. Six firing blisters to the well ground off. 18.11 in. x 14.96 in.
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- Armorial / Armourial - Bearing a coat of arms. Coats of arms came into general use by feudal lords and knights in in the 12th century, and by the 13th century, arms had spread beyond their initial battlefield use to become a flag or emblem for families in the higher social classes of Europe. They were inherited from one generation to the next. When a family crest is used on individual items of silver or furniture it is an indicator of the aristocratic standing of the family represented.
Armorials were also used to decorate mass produced ceramic souvenir ware by such companies as Goss, Carlton & Shelley, and in these cases the coats of arms displayed were of boroughs and cities.
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