A FAMILLE ROSE BATAVIA PLATE painted in the centre with an allegory of the Dutch East India Company, depicted by a European lady wearing a crown and holding a flag with the initials V.O.C. (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie), surrounded by classical deities, including Mercury, and being offered tribute by natives, the word BATAVIA painted in the foreground and two ships moored in a harbour in the background, the well with an iron-red and gilt scrolling vine below four flower sprays on the foliate rim (small rim crack, rim chips), circa 1740

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A FAMILLE ROSE BATAVIA PLATE painted in the centre with an allegory of the Dutch East India Company, depicted by a European lady wearing a crown and holding a flag with the initials V.O.C. (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie), surrounded by classical deities, including Mercury, and being offered tribute by natives, the word BATAVIA painted in the foreground and two ships moored in a harbour in the background, the well with an iron-red and gilt scrolling vine below four flower sprays on the foliate rim (small rim crack, rim chips), circa 1740
22.5cm. diam.

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The scene is a reproduction of the frontispiece by J. Punt engraved in 1739 to illustrate 'Batavia begrepen in zes boeken', by Jean de Marre, published in 1740 in Amsterdam. The book was addressed to the directors of the V.O.C. and to the government of the East Indies to celebrate the link between the company and Batavia. For similar examples cf. Hervouet and Y. Bruneau, op. cit., p.14, pl.1.5; Chine de Commande from the the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, Cat. no.38, p.125; Howard and Ayers, China for the West Vol.I, no.198; and C.J.A. Jorg, Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum no. 4, 1982 for a discussion of this subject

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