EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A Japanese Imari armorial saucer
Early 18th century
Decorated in gilt and iron-red on underglaze-blue with an accolé coat-of-arms surrounded by feathered garlands and surmounted by a coronet, a band of tassels reserved on a trellis-pattern at the border
10.7 cm. diam.

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Lot Essay

The arms are those of Joan van Brederode (1664-1707) and Ida Maria van Buren (1675-1722). For their marriage in 1702 a Japanese Imari service was commissioned. Some pieces of the service are on loan in the Groninger Museum and the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam has a number of pieces. See C.J.A. Jörg, Interactions in Ceramics, Hong Kong, Museum of Art, 1984, pp. 132 and 133, pls 85 and 85A.

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