Lot 121
121
AN EXPORT ARMORIAL PLATE for the Dutch market decorated with a central coat-of-arms surmounted by a crest and surrounded by eight smaller coats, each named, within an iron-red and gilt floral garland in the well, and shell-and-scroll design at the border (slightly rubbed, gilding possibly retouched), circa 1745

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AN EXPORT ARMORIAL PLATE for the Dutch market decorated with a central coat-of-arms surmounted by a crest and surrounded by eight smaller coats, each named, within an iron-red and gilt floral garland in the well, and shell-and-scroll design at the border (slightly rubbed, gilding possibly retouched), circa 1745
23cm. diam.

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Van Reverhorst. Cf. D. Howard and J. Ayers, op. cit., p. 400, pl. 398 for an identical plate. The author suggests that this is the only Chinese armorial service which gives the arms of the eight great-grandparents of the owner. Cf. also M. Beurdeley, op. cit., p. 190, cat. 174, for the plate in the Musée Guimet, Paris. C. le Corbeiller, op. cit., p. 99, illustrates a covered sugar bowl, sauce-boat and cup from this service in a private Dutch collection and in colour, a dish, p. 97; and D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer illustrates the plate in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, op. cit., p. 274

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