A landowner and his wife and two accompanying peasants.

Chinese, Late Qianlong period Circa 1800

Kinfaus Castle
The Earls of Moray/The Lords Gray

The original castle at Kinfaus, just to the North East of Perth was built by the de Longueville family in the 19th Century on land granted tem by Robert The Bruce
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The Decorative Arts of the China Trade by Carl L Crossman, p. 320, plate 113

In 1741 John, 12th Lord Gray married the heiress to Kinfaus, margaret Blair. The present day castle was built by Francis, 15th Lord Gray (the only one of their four sons to marry) in the 1820s. His sister Jean Gray married the 9th Early of Moray. The 14th Lord Gray had re-settled the Gray and Kinfaus estates and entailed them to the younger twin son of his sister Jean. Thus Kinfaus became part of the Moray estates. The linking of these two families is alluded to in the names of the collector.