A Group of Chinese Export Armorial Porcelain with the

A Group of Chinese Export Armorial Porcelain with the Arms of Stephens
Circa 1740-60
with arms of Turnbull, Deane and/or Russell in pretence, comprising six plates, a soup plate, a punch bowl, a saucer, a cup, a teapot and a creamer; 12 items total.
Height of punch bowl 5 x diameter 12 inches.

Provenance:
Heirloom and Howard, London (with invoices and related documents)

Note:
The coats-of-arms depicted in this lot are of those of the descendants to John Stephens, Attorney General to King Charles I. Per the associated provenance documents from Heirloom and Howard included with the lot, "the Stephens family of Little Sodbury and Estington in Gloucestershire derived from the Stephens of Tregony in Cornwall." The punchbowl is attributed to having been part of a service "ordered by Capt. William Stevens of the East Indiaman 'Delaware' in Canton in 1748," while the soup plate is documented as having "been made for the Revd. Nathaniel Stephens, born 1679, who married Ellis, daughter of Philip Deane of Harwich."