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Lot Essay
The arms are those of the City of Amsterdam. The delicate and fine enamelling, combined with the ruby-pink glaze on the reverse, is typical of the Yongzheng period, but is extremely rare on ceramics made so obviously for the Export market. Only a small number of these 18th Century plates are known which, indicates that they were probably commissioned for a small group of members either from the Amsterdam Chamber of the V.O.C. or the city council. There are no records of other coat-of-arms with this pattern.
An identical plate is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, illustrated by C. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics, Amsterdam, 1997, no. 376, p. 316, and by D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain, London, 1974, fig. 269; and another in the British Museum illustrated by R. Krahl and J. Harrison-Hall, Ancient Chinese Trade Ceramics, 1994, no. 125.
An identical plate is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, illustrated by C. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics, Amsterdam, 1997, no. 376, p. 316, and by D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain, London, 1974, fig. 269; and another in the British Museum illustrated by R. Krahl and J. Harrison-Hall, Ancient Chinese Trade Ceramics, 1994, no. 125.