Lot Essay
According to Dr Jochem Kroes, Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the Dutch Market, Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, The Netherlands, 2007, pp. 383-4, these arms are of the Udemans family of Zeeland. The service dates to 1770-80 and was ordered by Willem Udemans Jr.(1750-96), who had a long VOC career, lastly as a captain in the 1770s and 80s.