Lot Essay
The arms are those of the Antwerp family Van den Cruyce.
QIANLONG
Details
A pair of famille rose armorial plates,
Qianlong
Enamelled primarily at the centre with iron-red, blue and green enamels and gilt with a central coat-of-arms surmounted by a helmet, coronet and cross and flanked by two plumed unicorns before a feathery mantling, within a spearhead band round the rim, the everted rim with floral scrollwork in gilt with alternate oval and shaped cartouches in puce and sepia depicting Chinese lanscapes and trees (one repaired, rim crack and small chips)
22.6cm. diam. (2)
Qianlong
Enamelled primarily at the centre with iron-red, blue and green enamels and gilt with a central coat-of-arms surmounted by a helmet, coronet and cross and flanked by two plumed unicorns before a feathery mantling, within a spearhead band round the rim, the everted rim with floral scrollwork in gilt with alternate oval and shaped cartouches in puce and sepia depicting Chinese lanscapes and trees (one repaired, rim crack and small chips)
22.6cm. diam. (2)
Literature
cf. H. Maertens de Noordhout, Porcelaines Chinoises Decorées d'Armoiries Belges, Brussel, 1994, p. 30-31