Wapen van de families Shaw en Wright.
Opmerking Angela Howard 04-11-2015: The arms are almost certainly intended for Shaw of Eltham, (correctly) Argent a chevron between three fusils ermines; with crest, Six arrows [here five] interlaced saltirewise or, flighted and headed argent, tied together by a belt gules, buckle and pendant gold. The motto 'Nec elata nec dejecta' is not recorded for this family. The impaled coat is of Wright, Azure three martlets within a double [here single] tressure flory counterflory argent.
Although several branches of Shaw bear these arms, only this family of Eltham in Kent uses a similar crest. A baronetcy was created in 1665 for Sir John Shaw of London, who having advanced money to the exiled Charles II was favoured with the lucrative position of Collector of Customs after the Restoration.
A brief 16th century pedigree records the family of Wright of Bradley and Market Rasen in Lincolnshire Pedigrees, but no marriage has been found between these two families.
A service of c.1725 impaling the arms of Shaw (Volume I, A5) was made for John Spencer, Paymaster to the East India Company, who married a daughter of the second baronet, probably a close relative of the owner of this service.
(Above will be published in Chinese Armorial Porcelain Volume III, Howard)
