a pair of Chinese Export blue and white dinner plates, 9.5" diameter, the central decoration are the arms of MARSH, Quarterly gules and argent, in the dexter chief quarter a horse's head couped of the second; crest, Out of a mural coronet gules a horse's head argent, ducally gorged or."
These arms were confirmed to Marsh of Martin and Langdon in Kent in 1602, descended from the family of De Marisco of East Langdon near Dover in the reign of Edward III (1326). Of this family and still living at Martin and Langdon, was Henry Marsh, who died in 1718. There is a monument to his eldest son Thomas, Lt.-Col. of the Militia of the Cinque Ports, in the Church of Womenswould.
Henry Marsh, the younger brother who died in 1721, had two sons and a daughter
One son Captain Henry Marsh, R.N. who died in 1772 leaving four sons, for one of whom this service was probably made.
The three younger sons Henry, Edward, and William were born between 1753 and 1757, all served in the Navy. The eldest brother John Marsh born in 1752, of Nethersole House, Barham Downs, and Snave Manor in Kent.
China, circa 1790
documented with the above history in Chinese Armorial Porcelain by David Sanctuary Howard, 1974
