A Chinese dish with a Swedish crest

Of oval form, the centre decorated with the Swedish armorial for af Wirsén, a shield flanked by a crane and a fish, under one flag belonging to the Swedish Navy and one to the Army’s fleet, with a dot-pattern border in gold and underglaze blue around the edge of the well and the upper rim, the base unglazed. Period: Jiaqing (1796 - 1820), ca. 1805- 1810. Length: 31,5 cm.

This is the armorial of the af Wirsén family, which was ennobled in 1805.
Armorial porcelain with this Swedish design were exhibited at the Guangzhou Museum as part of an exhibition of exquisite armorial porcelain, the exhibition from 2015 ‘Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty from the Guangzhou Museum Collection’, aimed to discover how armorial porcelain connected the West with the Qing Dynasty.
This dinner service was one of the last services ordered before the Swedish East India Company ceased in 1813.