A fine pair of Chinese Export armorial mugs

A fine pair of Chinese Export large cylindrical mugs, each with ear shaped handle, painted in coloured enamels with the arms of Swythen impaling another, beneath a crest, flanked by flower sprays, beneath a band of flowers and leaves, gilt line rim, 5 1/2" high, circa 1755, no marks

Provenance; The Collection of Doris Duke, Christie's New York, 3-5th June 2004, part lot 460
                      English Private Collection

See David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, Volume II, page 243, for a discussion of this armorial 

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