If you are a person of imagination, and content to leave our material world and weave romance in the back parlour, buy yourself a cabinet and fill it with pieces of old armorial porcelain … and the china will turn novelist. It will tell you of the gay gatherings of the Cliffords and the Collets; you will listen enthralled to mid-Georgian wits; you will learn how the Dalrymples spoke; what grace was the Crichtons; and of the courtesy of the Kavanaghs. And the colours of the sunset will be yours as you gaze. … It is none of your Worcester porcelain or Lowestoft ware, but a breath straight from the land where the sun rises, rich and bold and delicate. A world of ballad and of lost hopes is in it; ideals of the West intermingled with the glamour of the East; in one delicate piece the tale of an English peer and a Chinese mandarin. The sun never sets over this porcelain. W.F.G. writing in the Evening Standard, 1924 * * * Heirloom & Howard specialise in Chinese armorial porcelain, and also in decorative heraldic objects ranging from grants of arms and library paintings to embroideries and coach panels. * All the coats of arms are identified where possible to reveal their history and provenance. We also keep a register for those who would like to record their own family interests and be informed when appropriate items are found. *