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A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL CIRCULAR BASIN FOR THE SCOTTISH FAMILY GRANT OF LUSS Qianlong period, circa 1740
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A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL CIRCULAR BASIN FOR THE SCOTTISH FAMILY GRANT OF LUSS
Qianlong period, circa 1740
Centrally enameled in brilliant colors with a large coat of arms depicting two 'wildmen' with clubs flanking the shield shaped arms and a military helm, all between two scrolls bearing the family mottoes 'Craig Elachie' and 'Stand Fast', the cavetto with four cartouches of gilt ribboned emblems reserved on a cell-pattern band, the border with the family crest centrally above the arms and surrounded by three long trailing flower sprays at the compass points.
15 1/2in (39.3cm) diam
Centrally enameled in brilliant colors with a large coat of arms depicting two 'wildmen' with clubs flanking the shield shaped arms and a military helm, all between two scrolls bearing the family mottoes 'Craig Elachie' and 'Stand Fast', the cavetto with four cartouches of gilt ribboned emblems reserved on a cell-pattern band, the border with the family crest centrally above the arms and surrounded by three long trailing flower sprays at the compass points.
15 1/2in (39.3cm) diam
Footnotes
乾隆時期 約1740年 粉彩礬紅蘇格蘭Grant of Luss家族盾徽大盤
Published
Cohen & Cohen, Hit & Myth, Antwerp, 2014-B, pp. 114-115, no. 66
出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Hit & Myth》，安特衛普，2014年-B，頁114-115，圖版編號66
This service was ordered by Sir James Grant, 6th Baronet of Luss (1679-1747), who inherited the Baronetcy from his father-in-law in 1718.
The future Sir James was the son of Ludovic Grant (1641-1714), 8th Laird of Freuchie and 1st of Grant and Janet Brodie (c.1650-1697). In 1702, Sir James married Ann, daughter and heir of Sir Humphrey Colquhoun of Luss and she bore him six sons and eight daughters. Sir James had initially changed his name to Colquhoun in order to inherit his father-in-law's Baronetcy when Sir Humphrey died in 1718. He changed it back to Grant in 1719, because he had become Chief of Clan Grant after his older brother Alexander died without heir. Alexander, a Brigadier-General in the British army, had sided with the Government to help suppress the Jacobite uprising against the new English monarch King George 1 of Hanover in 1715, but by 1717 the unfortunate Alexander had clearly suffered a serious mental breakdown of some kind, being described as "under the care of the physician of Bedlam and in iron cuffs".
Sir James Grant was elected as MP for Invernessshire between 1722-1741, and for Elgin Burghs between 1741-47. His eldest son inherited the Grant titles, and his second son Ludovic inherited the Colquhoun titles. That simple succession planning failed when the eldest son died, and Ludovic became a Grant again. The Colquhoun titles and land instead passed to Sir James' third son, also named James, who proceeded to build a famous country house called Rossdhu on the banks of Loch Lomond, where with his wife Lady Helen Gordon he entertained the British literary lion Dr Samuel Johnson and his Scottish biographer James Boswell during their famous tour of the Highlands in 1773, faithfully documented by Boswell.
During the 1745 rebellion Sir James remained in London, advising his son "to stay at home, take care of his country and join no party". Ann Colquhoun was descended from the famous Sir John Colquhoun, created a Baronet of Nova Scotia in 1625, who married a daughter of the Earl of Montrose but in 1632 he absconded to Italy with his wife's sister and in his absence was accused of witchcraft and sorcery.
Sir James Grant's great-grandson, James Ludovic, was Captain of the ship Brunswick which was in Canton in 1798 and 1802 but he died in India in 1804. His brother Francis William Grant (d1853) ordered another Chinese dinner service in 1820 with these arms but without the badge.
References: Howard, 1974, p. 242, this service; and op. cit., p. 1002, for an example from the much later service commissioned in China for Francis Grant in 1820.
Saleroom notices
According to a descendant of the Colquphoun family, the title "Grant of Luss" should be revised to "Colquhoun of Luss." The motto Stand Fast belongs to the Grant family, while Craig Elachie is a variant ot the Colquhoun clan's war cry, normally rendered as Cnoc Elachan.