Rare Pair of Chinese Hand Decorated Porcelain Cabinet Plates, late Eighteenth, early Nineteenth Century, depicting the well known Fitzhugh Pattern.

Condition: Mint condition with no losses.

Diameter: 10.5" (26.5cm).

Pair Eur.335.00.

The Fitzhugh China Pattern originates from three representatives of two generations of Fitzhughs of the English branch who became sea captains and even a Director of the British East India Company. Senior officers of the EIC were allowed to trade on their own account, and during the period 1704-1790s they shipped much of the pattern to England. For more information see an article by J.B.S. Holmes in the American magazine “Antiques”, January 1966, pp.130-1; also Spode’s Willow Pattern and other Designs after the Chinese, Ch. 14, The Chinese Trophies and Fitzhugh Patterns, Robert Copeland, 1990.