18TH CENTURY

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TWO ARMORIAL PLATES
18th century
One decorated in iron-red, blue enamel and gilt at the centre with a large coat-of-arms within leafy mantling below a crest, the border with three composite gilt floral-sprays; the other in famille rose enamels at the centre with a ribboned prunus bouquet below a accollée
coat-of-arms, supporters and coronet, and within three similar sprays at the border, minute rim chips restored
11in. (28cm.) and 9in. (23cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

The arms on the larger are those of Valckenier of Holland; cf. J. B. Rietstap, op.cit., vol.II, p.968. The family were influential merchants in Amsterdam and held high offices in Batavia, serving the Dutch East India Company. Several different services bearing these arms are known to have been made, in Chinese porcelain as well as Japanese.

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