A rare famille verte armorial shaving basin for the Dutch market

CIRCA 1720

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A rare famille verte armorial shaving basin for the Dutch market
Circa 1720
Painted with a central coat-of-arms surmounted by a coronet and bearing the inscription 'Groeningen' (Groningen), flanked by large peony blooms and butterflies, the gilt brown-edged rim decorated with an underglaze blue trellis-pattern band reserved with various lobed cartouches of flowers, a goat, cockerels, a buffalo and fox
27.7 cm. diam.

Literature

China Institute Catalogue, New York, China Trade Porcelain, 1973, cat. 16 for an example with the arms of France.

Lot Essay

This forms part of a set of shaving bowls that can be compared with the various other series of dishes bearing the arms of the province and cities of the Netherlands, including those territories under French or Austrian control, and those of France and England. The spelling of the names suggests they were made to Dutch order and their combination suggests a date after the treaty of Utrecht which concluded the War of the Spanish Succession in 1713 .
Four similar basins bearing the arms of France, Henegouw, Friesland and Holland were sold in our Amsterdam Rooms, 31 May/1 June 1988, lot 192 - 194.

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