An armorial marriage plate for the Dutch market

CIRCA 1740

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An armorial marriage plate for the Dutch market
Circa 1740
Painted at the centre en grisaille with a wedding scene in a Baroque cupola including angels, peacocks, and doves, various sea-nymphs and Triton in the foreground, the building surmounted by an arch inscribed 'semper amor prote, firmissimus atque fidelis', between two coat-of-arms resting on a frieze above the columns, all within a Meissen-stye gilt scrollwork border
22.6 cm. diam.

Lot Essay

The arms of this plate is from one of about ten services with Dutch coat-of-arms with the same scene. These are however unindentified. For a similar example see D.S. Howard, Choice of the Private Trader, London, 1994, p. 82, fig. 66. 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; W.E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and 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.

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