CIRCA 1740

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A PAIR OF DUTCH MARKET GRISAILLE MARRIAGE PLATES
Circa 1740
Painted at the centre en grisaille with a wedding scene in a Baroque cupola including angels, peacocks, and doves, various sea-nymphs and Triton in the foreground, the building surmounted by an arch inscribed 'semper amor prote, firmissimus atque fidelis', between two coat-of-arms resting on a frieze above the columns, all within a Meissen-stye gilt scrollwork border
22.9 cm. diam. (2)

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Lot Essay

The arms of this plate have been attributed to the families Van Bergen van der Grijp and Van Beaumont and is from one of about ten services with Dutch coat-of-arms with the same scene. The scene probably derives from a seventeenth century book frontispiece and at least six different pairs of arms are illustrated by J.A. Lloyde Hyde, Chinese Porcelain for the European Market, Lisbon, 1956, p. 88, pl. XV, no. 48; W.E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, New York, 1975, p. 66, pl. 52. One was included in the exhibition of Chinese Export Porcelain, Brussels, 1989-90, Catalogue, pp. 296-297, no. 123. For a similar example see also D.S.Howard, Choice of the Private Trader, London, 1994, p. 82, fig. 66. An identical plate was sold in our Amsterdam Rooms, 19 October 1999, lot 383; and on 14-16 February, lot 1064.

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