MARCH ANTIQUE & ART AUCTION Tuesday, 27 March 2018 / 9:30 am start
A Chinese export ware porcelain armorial ashet
Realised: $1,400 plus premium
Lot Details
with arms of Sir Philip Gibbes, 1st Baronet (1731–1815) a planter in Barbados. Shield: per fess argent and ermine, three battle-axes in pale sable. Crest: an arm embowed in armour, garnished or, and charged with a cross couped gules, the hand grasping a battle-axe. Incorporating the baron's badge The Red Hand of Ulster. Motto: Tenax Propositi (Tenacious of purpose) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Philip_Gibbes,_1st_Baronet . His son emigrated to New Zealand in 1855, the baronetcy extinguished in 1940. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne-Gibbes_baronets . Six firing blisters to the well ground off. 460 x 380.
