The arms are those of Pinto of the Hague. For an identical plate cf. D. Howard and J. Ayers, op. cit., p. 63 and M. Beurdeley, op. cit., p. 185, cat. 154, for the smaller example in the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon. Manuel Alvares Pinto was Jewish and emigrated to Holland at the end of the 17th Century with his family. His grandson, Isaac Pinto, was a well-known economist author and financier (he was a major shareholder in the Dutch East India Company). He was also a counsellor and friend of William IV of Orange. Cf. N. de Castro, op. cit., p. 42