1706

Details

A Dutch Delft dated pancake plate from an armorial rebus series
1706
Painted in blue and red with an elaborate crested rebus shield above the inscription EN.TEN.SCHAT.SIN.NAE.STE.NIET 1706 and numbered 6, the border with a band of scrolling foliage
22 cm. diam.

Provenance

Collection G. Klatte, Hilversum.
Collection E.A. Klatte, Lausanne.
The present owner.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

For a plate numbered 5 from the same series see M. van Aken-Fehmers, Delfts Aardewerk, Volume I, Zwolle, 1999, p. 245 ill. 87. The unidentified coat-of-arms probably of a wine merchant family. The moralistic rebus should be read as Wie druiven boven eer-en-prijs geniet (who enjoys 'grapes' above all) joined with the inscribed phrase En ten schat sin naeste niet (does not care about the others).

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