A LARGE FAMILLE VERTE ARMORIAL DISH

CIRCA 1710

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A LARGE FAMILLE VERTE ARMORIAL DISH
circa 1710
The centre with a large gilt coat-of-arms above a banner inscribed HOLLAND, reserved on leafy scroll ground with peonies, chrysanthemum and birds in flight, the well painted in underglaze blue with a trellis-pattern band reserved with six enamelled cartouches alternately enclosing carp and shrimp, the wide flat rim with a similar blue-and-white ground, reserved with larger cartouches alternately enamelled with reclusive scholars and birds among prunus branches, small rim chips
17 in. (44 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Duc de X....; purchased Palais Galliera, Paris, 27 June 1969.

Lot Essay

This dish is from one of several series of dishes bearing the arms of Holland, England, France, Luxembourg, and numerous Dutch provinces and cities; at least twenty-three different arms are known and the fact they were all made to Dutch order accounts for the spelling of the names. For a discussion on these dishes, see D. S. Howard and J. Ayers, op.cit., 1978, vol.I, pp.118 and 119, D. S. Howard, op.cit., 1974, p.36, C. Le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, 1974, pp.38 and 39. Compare the dish in the Rijksmuseum with the same unusual combination of decoration in both the central field, the well and at the border as the present lot , but with the arms of Groeningen, illustrated by D. S. Lunsingh Scheurleer, op.cit., 1974, fig.264; and the plate of this design, but with the arms of Luxembourg, illustrated by David S. Howard, op.cit., 1994, no.17.

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