#16587
A Chinese export octagonal soup plate painted in famille rose enamels
and gilt with the Arms of Macgregor.
Qianlong, ca. 1780
9.5"
Diameter
Ill.
David Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain,
Volume I , p.651. The Macgregors were a Scots family closely aligned
to Bonnie Prince Charlie.
John Macgregor was the Auditor General in Bengal, India.
The family motto is lettered in Gaelic.