CIRCA 1710

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A LARGE FAMILLE VERTE ARMORIAL DISH
Circa 1710
The centre enamelled with a large gold and blue-ground coat-of-arms above a banner inscribed GELDERLANT and surrounded by peony and daisy sprays and birds in flight, the well with oval cartouches containing carp and prawns reserved on an underglaze blue diaper ground, the broad everted rim with larger shaped cartouches containing figures in contemplation under trees alternating with birds perched among prunus, reserved on a different diaper ground
185/8 in. (47.2 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

This dish is from one of several series of dishes bearing the arms of Holland, England, France, Luxembourg, and of 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. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, 1978, vol. I, pp. 118 and 119; D. S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, 1974, p. 36; and C. Le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, 1974, pp. 38 and 39. A dish of this size and of this design, but inscribed Holland, was sold in these Rooms, 15 June 1999, lot 220.

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