A rare famille rose armorial cup and saucer

CIRCA 1730

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A rare famille rose armorial cup and saucer
Circa 1730
Enamelled primarily in rose, yellow, green and iron-red with a central coat-of-arms flanked by lion supporters and surmounted by a crown, above the letters VOC within leafy mantling, the border with the inscription 'Concordia Res Parvae Crescunt 1728' below a striped band at the rim (saucer repaired) (2)

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Holland, with the V.O.C. monogram of the Dutch East India Company. The design was probably taken from a silver ducatoon of 1728 with the rim of the plate imitating the ribbed milling of the coin. See Howard and Ayers, op. cit., p. 194, no. 191 for a plate with a similar design and a discussion on the dating of this service. Cf. C. le Corbeiller, op. cit., p. 104, no. 43; C.J.A. Jörg, Chinese Export Porcelain, Brussels 1989/90, Exhibition Catalogue, pp. 120 and 121.

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