CIRCA 1730

Details

A pair of armorial saucer dishes for the Dutch market
Circa 1730
Enamelled in green, red, blue, pink and black enamels and gilding, the central quarterly coat-of-arms surmounted with a bird above a helmet within feathery mantling, encircled by a band of Chinese landscape cartouches on a ground of lotus and foliage, the rim decorated with stylised flower sprays centred on the upperside with the coat-of-arms of the city of Amsterdam with crown and a pair of rampant lions, one with a rim restoration
21.4 cm. (8 3/8 in.) diam. (2)

Provenance

With A. Aronson, Amsterdam, 1974, acquired by
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. J-5).

Special notice

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Sale room notice

Please note that only one plate was purchased from A. Aronson, Amsterdam, in 1974 as mentioned in the catalogue, and that the second one was purchased from Kunsthandel Salomon Stodel, Amsterdam.

Lot Essay

The arms on the border are those of the City of Amsterdam. It has so far not been possible to identify the central quarterly coat-of-arms. Dr. J. Kroes from the Centraal Bureau van Genealogy, The Hague, has pointed out that the third arms on the quaterly and the helmet both depict the same falcon. It is perhaps possible that it was therefore commissioned for the Falck (falcon) family who were active both in South Africa and in the Far East.

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