A rare famille verte armorial dish for the Dutch market,

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A rare famille verte armorial dish for the Dutch market,
Kangxi
Enamelled and gilt with a central coat-of-arms surmounted by a coronet and bearing the inscription "Amsteland" (Amsterdam), flanked by two birds perched on flowering branches, the moulded sides decorated with radiating petal-shaped panels with single figures in garden settings and vessels filled with flowers, reserved on a honey-comb pattern ground below the shaped rim (rim frittings)
30.7cm. diam.

Literature

cf. D.S. Howard, 'China for the West', p.118 for similar dishes inscribed 'Holland' and 'Engelandt' and D.S. Howard, "The Choice of the Private Trader", p.53, pl.24, for a different type of famille verte dish with the inscription 'Amsterdam'

Lot Essay

These form part of a series of dishes bearing the arms of the provinces and cities of the Netherlands, including those territories under French or Austrian control, and those of France and England. The spelling of the names suggests they were made to Dutch order and their combination suggests a date after the treaty of Utrecht which concluded the War of the Spanish Succession in 1713.

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