SET OF FORTY-SIX FAMILLE ROSE 'BIANCO-SOPRA-BIANCO' DINNER SERVICE QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY each finely decorated in quatrefoil cartouche with two deer in natural landscape, bare trees surrounding them perched by birds, rocks outlined and detailed in grisaille, reserved on a white-enamelled scrolling flowers ground, comprising of 25 pieces of dish; 12 pieces of soup plate; 4 pieces of smaller plate; 1 piece of medium plate; 2 pieces of smaller charger and 2 pieces of large charger (Dimensions: dish 23cm; soup plate 22.5cm; smaller plate 29cm; medium plate 35cm; smaller charger 39cm; large charger 39cm; all in diameter) (Qty: 46) (dish 23cm; soup plate 22.5cm; smaller plate 29cm; medium plate 35cm; smaller charger 39cm; large charger 39cm; all in diameter) Qty: (46) Footnote: Provenance: Thomas Pitt (c.1705-1760) Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford (1737-1793) William Wyndham, 1st Baron Grenville (1759-1834) The Hon. George Mathew Fortescue (1791-1877) Thence by descent to the present owners Note: This service was previously at Boconnoc House, Cornwall for much of its history. In 1717 the house was sold to Thomas Pitt, previously Governor of Madras. He raised the purchase money from the sale of the Pitt Diamond, bought in India in 1701, which he sold to the Regent of France to be set in the crown of Louis XV for his coronation. Boconnoc was the home of three British Prime Ministers, the most famous of which was probably William Pitt the Younger, but also Lord Grenville who was responsible for the abolishment of the slave trade. The house and estate passed into the Fortescue family by marriage in 1864 and has remained in the family’s possession ever since.