CIRCA 1740

細節

TWO PLATES FOR THE DUTCH MARKET
CIRCA 1740
One with the arms of Valckenier at the centre and an unusual border of three finely detailed cartouches depicting Dutch town scenes and a fourth cartouche enclosing the pale pink enamel bird crest; and another, a marriage plate, decorated en grisaille and gilt with a classical marriage scene in a grand architectural setting, the columns supporting shields with pairs of love-birds in place of coats-of-arms, both with some restoration
9 in. (23 cm.) diam. (2)

來源

For the first: Dr. Julien Pergola; Sotheby's Monaco, 23 June 1986, lot 1192.

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

拍品專文

The service to which the first plate belongs was probably made for Adriaan Valckenier (1695-1751), who served in Batavia from 1715 to 1741. The left-hand cartouche depicts the King William Gate at Cleves and the right-hand one possibly a Dutch East India Company warehouse. See D. S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, London, 1994, pp. 78 and 79, no. 61 for an identical plate now in the Hodroff Gallery at the Winterthur Museum, Delaware; Mr. Howard dates this service to circa 1738 and comments this is one of four services made with these arms. See C. Le Corbeilller, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, New York, 1974, pp. 86-88 for a discussion on the Valckenier services, and no. 34 for a similar plate to the present lot.