Note 106 — Chapter X · THE PORCELAIN OF CHINA—(continued).

This plate belongs to a group in which the arms, above all the mantlings, are in the style of the seventeenth century. On these the gules is always rendered by an opaque iron-red, although the new rouge d’or is freely used in the rest of the decoration. I learn from my friend Colonel Croft Lyons that the arms on this plate are those of Leake Okeover, who was born in 1701. The initials, repeated four times on the margin, L. M. O., stand for Leake and his wife Mary. The plate, therefore, cannot well have been painted before, say, 1725.