Lot Essay
The arms are those of the De Heere family of Middelburg and Dordrecht in the Netherlands. This service must have been commissioned by Huijbert Johan de Heere (d.1777) who worked for the VOC in the Dutch East Indies from 1740 till 1763. For an example of a bowl see C. Jrg and J. van Campen, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 1997, p. 310, fig. 366. A plate bearing the same coat-of-arms was sold in our Amsterdam Rooms, 8 December 1998, lot 216 (part).