CIRCA 1720

The four famous 'Provinces' patterns, each comprising twenty-three different arms of the principle towns and provinces of present-day Belgium and the Netherlands plus of England and France, were made around 1720, possibly inspired by the 1717 Triple Alliance marking a new rapport of England, France and the Netherlands, as Le Corbeiller posits (China Trade Porcelain, pp. 37-39).
A number of smaller, molded famille verte 'Holland' dishes seem to have been made (see the example sold Christie's London, 6 November 2006, lot 265); this larger type is more rare.