with enamel back depicting an Imperial Chinese figure. Made for the Chinese market SIGNED ILBERY, LONDON, CIRCA 1815 Provenance; Purchased at the contents sale of Castlewellan Castle, Co. Down, Northern Ireland 1964 and hence by descent Castlewellan Castle was home to the Annesley family for more than 100 years, finally passing from Lady Mabel Annesley to her son Gerald Francis Annesley on the occasion of his marriage in 1927 to Lady Elizabeth Jocelyn, daughter of the 7th Earl of Roden from Tollymore. Gerald Francis lived in the Castle from that time until it was sold in 1967.