CIRCA 1750

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A Chinese 'marriage plate' for the Dutch market
Circa 1750
Painted en grisaille with touches of iron-red and gilt, the centre with a wedding scene in a Baroque cupola including angels, peacocks, and doves, the building surmounted by an arch inscribed 'semper amor prote, firmissimus atque fidelis', in the foreground the Dutch three-master 'Slooten' flanked by various sea-nymphs and Triton above the text 'Alles heeft eenen bestemden tydt: ende alle voornemen onder den hemel heeft zynen tydt Prediker 3 v.1', surrounded on the flat rim by alternate cartouches of a bird on a branch and mountainous landscapes, some minute glaze frits
35.6cm. diam.

Special notice

Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20.825% of the hammer price for lots with values up to NLG 200,000. If the hammer price exceeds the NLG 200,000 then the premium is calculated at 20.825% of the first NLG 200,000 plus 11.9% of any amount in excess of NLG 200,000.

Lot Essay

The ship 'Slooten' was built in Amsterdam in 1746 and made the journey to the Far East seven times. Possibly this plate was ordered for the wedding of the first captain of the ship, Annaeus Lodewijk Bettingh, to Aletta Hillegonda Meyers in 1750. See F. and N. Hervouët, Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p.317, pl.13.88. The marriage scene probably derives from a seventeenth century book frontispiece and at least six different pairs of arms are illustrated by J.A. Lloyde Hyde, Chinese Porcelain for the European Market, Lisbon, 1956, p.88, pl.XV, no.48; W.E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, New York, 1975, p.66, pl.52.

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