An iron-red and gilt armorial plate

YONGZHENG

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An iron-red and gilt armorial plate
Yongzheng
Painted to the centre with a crowned armorial cartouche showing a squirrel on a field of gold, the everted well decorated with flower cartouches reserved on an iron-red cell-pattern ground, the rim with enamelled flowers, promontory rocks, bamboo and pavilions and a similar armorial cartouche, all below a scroll-work band (small rim restoration)
23.1 cm. diam.

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Albert Sichterman (1692-1764) an official of the Dutch East India Company who ordered large quantities of Chinese porcelain bearing his arms. The Groninger Museum has several examples of this ware, see Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain, p. 88, pl. 101-102 and Howard & Ayers, vol.II, p. 401, pl. 399.

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