An armorial Dutch-decorated saucer-dish

CIRCA 1718

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An armorial Dutch-decorated saucer-dish
Circa 1718
Enamelled predominantly in iron-red, gilt and black with a central coat-of-arms, surmounted by a green shaded helmet and winged he-goat, within extensive feathery mantling, inscribed in a banderole below with 'Gerrit.Enghelse.Bockxhoorn. Anno 1718', encircled around the slightly everted rim with trefoil floral panels interlinked with S-scrolls on a dotted and diaper-pattern border (rim frittings and minute chips)
35.8 cm. diam.

Lot Essay

The coat-of-arms are those of Gerrit Engelsz Bockxhoorn who was a ships' captain for the VOC from 1717-1718.
For an example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, see C. Le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain, Patterns of Exchange, New York, 1974, p. 40-41.

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