A RARE ARITA BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER DISH painted with a central circular panel with the initials V.O.C. (Verenigd Oost-Indische Compagnie) surrounded by fruiting branches of pomegranate and finger citrus, the reverse with a similar central V.O.C. roundel and a band of three fruiting branches of peach at the border (minute rim glaze flake), late 17th Century
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A RARE ARITA BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER DISH painted with a central circular panel with the initials V.O.C. (Verenigd Oost-Indische Compagnie) surrounded by fruiting branches of pomegranate and finger citrus, the reverse with a similar central V.O.C. roundel and a band of three fruiting branches of peach at the border (minute rim glaze flake), late 17th Century
32.5cm. diam.
Lot Essay
Cf.J.Ayers, Porcelain for Palaces, p.94 for an example in the British Museum, JA 1961, 12-12,5
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