CIRCA 1735-1740

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An armorial 'valckenier' dish
Circa 1735-1740
The centre boldly painted with a large coat-of-arms of the family Valckenier from Amsterdam with a shaded pink falcon crest, the rim with four sprays of flowering boughs in grisaille, iron-red and gilt, some rubbing
28.3 cm. diam.

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Lot Essay

Various members of the influential Valckenier family were involved with the Dutch East India Company and ordered armorial porcelain, the leading family member being Adriaan Valckenier, Governor-General of the Indies 1737-41. See C.J.A. Jörg and J. van Campen, Chinese Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, London, 1997, p. 303, where the author illustrates a plate from another famous Valckenier service showing en grisaille around the rim three scenes of European towns

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