Dish, one of a pair, hard paste porcelain, with pierced and underglaze blue painted butterfly-trellis-key and honeycomb borders, central painted arms of Braithwait consisting of an orange shield with single chevron bearing three crosses croslet fitchy,

Dish, one of a pair, hard paste porcelain, with pierced and underglaze blue painted butterfly-trellis-key and honeycomb borders, central painted arms of Braithwait consisting of an orange shield with single chevron bearing three crosses croslet fitchy, motto beneath translates (loosely) as Nobility Brings Forth the (true) seed, on an ermine ground trimmed in blue and gilt; not marked, made in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, with central armorial added in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, c1775-1825
Probably from a service made for Major General Sir John Braithwait, Commander in Chief of the Coast of Coromandel, India
the blue painted borders both appear in transfer-printed form in Spode's 'Temple Landscape II' pattern c1813-1820