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Lot Essay
From the famed series of dishes made with the arms of the principle provinces and towns of present-day Belgium and the Netherlands, plus of England and France. Twenty-three different arms seem to comprise each complete series. The sets varied from small famille verte dishes to large famille verte dishes to barber's basins to this rose-verte pattern, the only one displaying figures.
Documentary evidence explaining the commission has yet to come to light, but C. Le Corbeiller (Patterns of Exchange, pp. 38-39) has pointed out that the spellings suggest a Dutch clientele, and that the grouping suggests the borders of this region after the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht that ended the War of the Spanish Succession.
A very similar charger, from the collection of Benjamin F. Edwards III, was sold Christie's New York, 22 January 2003, lot 45.
Documentary evidence explaining the commission has yet to come to light, but C. Le Corbeiller (Patterns of Exchange, pp. 38-39) has pointed out that the spellings suggest a Dutch clientele, and that the grouping suggests the borders of this region after the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht that ended the War of the Spanish Succession.
A very similar charger, from the collection of Benjamin F. Edwards III, was sold Christie's New York, 22 January 2003, lot 45.