Lot Essay
The arms are those of Valckenier. This family, prominent in the Seventeenth and Eighteen Centuries, played an active role in their home city of Amsterdam where they held posts as church officers, burgomasters and alderman. Towards the end of the 17th Century certain members of the family based in the East became East India Company officials. Cf. also C. Le Corbeiller, op. cit., pp.86-87, pl.34, fig.47
Similar dishes were sold in Christie's New York Rooms, November 1984, lot 119.
Similar dishes were sold in Christie's New York Rooms, November 1984, lot 119.