Lot Essay
The arms are those of Johan van Bergen van der Gijp and Elisabeth Arnaudina van Beaumont Cornelis, who were married on 18 November 1736. The scene probably derives from a seventeenth century book frontispiece and at least six different pairs of arms are illustrated by J.A. Lloyde Hyde, Chinese Porcelain for the European Market, Lisbon, 1956, p. 88, pl. XV, no.48; by W.E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, New York, 1970, vol.II, p. 599, pl. 169 for a plate in the Metropolitan Museum, New York; and by E. Gordon, Chinese Export Porcelain, New York, 1975, p. 66, pl. 52, who attributes the arms to Beaumont and Backus. Another was included in the exhibition of Chinese Export Porcelain, Brussels, 1989-90, Catalogue, pp. 296-297, no. 123.