A set of twelve armorial soup-plates for the Dutch market

CIRCA 1752

Details

A set of twelve armorial soup-plates for the Dutch market
Circa 1752
Enamelled with an acollée coat-of-arms surmounted by a coronet, and surrounded by a shell-motif between foliage, all within small lappet and spearhead borders in gilt outlined with sepia round the well and rim (one with rim crack, two with very small chips)
23 cm. diam. (12)

Literature

C.J.A. Jörg and J. van Campen, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1997, p. 309, pl. 364.

Lot Essay

The arms are those of the Dutch families De Famars from Amsterdam and Vriesen from Zwolle. It is likely that this service was commissioned on the occasion of the wedding between Johan Wilhelm de Famars and Mechteld Johanna Geertruid Vriesen in 1752. De Famars last post in the army was Lieutenant General of the cavalry from 1767 till 1798.

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