Decorated in iron red and gold with a flamboyant coat of arms within a honeycomb patterned cavetto of iron red and gilding and a rim painted with flowers and scholar’s objects, and edged with a gilded scrolling band. Bears the the motto Vici Patientia. Diameter 22.3 cm.
Restored chip.
Arms of the Mountford family or the Morford family. The decoration makes us think perhaps Morford as one Charles Morford was an English supercargo on a Swedish ship sailing to Canton in 1732 which fits into the Yongzheng period.
David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, Vol. II, page 151.