A verte-Imari armorial plate for the Dutch market

CIRCA 1720

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A verte-Imari armorial plate for the Dutch market
Circa 1720
Enamelled primarily in iron-red and gilt and enriched with green, blue and aubergine enamels, with a central coat-of-arms surmounted by a coronet within a cell-pattern band reserved with four floral cartouches in the well, the coat-of-arms repeated at the top of the rim above pagodas, bamboo and flowering branches (some frits)
22.6 cm. diam.

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Jan Albert Sichterman (1692-1764), who was Director of the V.O.C. (Dutch East India Comapny) in Bengal from 1734-1744. He returned to his house in Groningen in 1745 with numerous services along with other works of art from the Orient. There are four known varieties of this service. See C.J.A. Jrg & J. van Campen, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1997, p. 306, pl. 359, and D.S. Ayers & J. Ayers, China for the West, 1978, vol.2, p. 401, pl. 399.

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