A DUTCH MARKET ARMORIAL PLATE

CIRCA 1740-45

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A DUTCH MARKET ARMORIAL PLATE
Circa 1740-45
With the arms of Sichterman of Groningen in the center showing a squirrel in profile eating a nut, repeated on the rim within a finely pencilled underglaze blue border of still-lifes and fruit clusters
8.7/8in. (22.5cm) diam.

Lot Essay

Made for Jan Albert Sichterman (1692-1764) whose long, successful V.O.C. career and the fine collection of Chinese art he returned with, including his three well-known armorial porcelain services, are described by C.J.A. Jorg in Chinese Ceramics in the Rijksmuseum, p. 306

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