FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Details

A large Chinese Imari armorial dish
First quarter 18th Century
The octagonal dish decorated with a central roundel depicting a coat-of-arms below a scroll inscribed CORBEAU, surrounded by shaped panels enclosing plants, a buddhistic lion and a group of cranes, reserved on a washed-blue ground with meandering camellia, rubbing, minute frittings
45.5cm. diam.

Literature

J. Ayers & D.S. Howard, China for the West, London, 1978, vol. I, p. 141, fig. 121; D.S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, London, 1994, p. 46-47.

Special notice

Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20% (VAT inclusive) for this lot.

Lot Essay

The design of this dish was inspired by a Japanese Imari prototype with the addition of the central coat-of-arms. It is not entirely certain for which family this dish was comissioned. There is the possibility that it was ordered for the French families Corbel of Brittany or Corbet of Normandy. Although Dr. Jochem Kroes from the Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie in the Hague suggests that it may have been made for a Dutch Huguenot family in Rotterdam named Corbeau around 1720.

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