A DUTCH MARKET ARMORIAL PLATE

CIRCA 1730-35

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A DUTCH MARKET ARMORIAL PLATE
CIRCA 1730-35
In the center a coat-of-arms for De Witte or van den Bergh in unusual yellow, sepia and blue coloring, the shield with three collared greyhounds, the well with a band of iron-red and black diaper and the rim delicately enameled with famille rose flowering boughs
9¼ inches (23.4 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 22 January 1992, lot 442

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Lot Essay

Dr Kroes explains that there were two Haarlem families who used these arms (op cit, pp 176-177). The longstanding De Witte family included the major-general of a fort near s'Hertogenbosch and the van den Bergh family included a VOC captain who made voyages from Enkhuisen and Amsterdam.

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