LATE 17TH CENTURY

细节

A rare Arita blue and white saucer dish
Late 17th Century
Painted with a central roundel enclosing the initials of the Dutch East Indies Company, V.O.C.(Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie), surrounded by flowering peony, finger citrus branches and foliage, the reverse with leafy branches of peaches, restored
35.6 cm. diam.

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拍品专文

For a similar example in the Britisch Museum with peach instead of peony, see Oriental Ceramic Society, Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe, 1650-1750, London, 1990, p. 94. Another example has been sold at Christie's Amsterdam, 18 May 1994, lot 298.
The decoration of peach and finger citrus branches, symbolic for a happy and long life, is after a Chinese prototype. For a similar Chinese saucer dish without the V.O.C. monogram, compare The Dutch Interior Sale, at Christie's Amsterdam, 28 September 2000, lot 210. And for a Japanese example without monogram, see lot 395 from the Daendels Collection in this sale.