LATE 1740S

The arms belong to the Van Beeftingh family from Rotterdam and were borne from the mid 18th Century by the brothers Hendrik (1711-1797) and Frans (1713-1791). According to Dr. J. Kroes the Van Beeftingh service made in the 1740s is the first dinner set to have a basic composition of plates, dishes, a soup tureen, sauce-boats and salts. At least thirteen plates and dishes, a soup tureen, two sauce-boats and one salt cellar have survived. See Dr. J. Kroes, Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the Dutch Market, Zwolle 2007, pp. 43, 315, 316 and p. 46, fig. LV for a similar shape and p. 44, cat. no. LII, and p. 315, cat. no. 232 for other parts of this service and C.J.A. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The Ming and Qing Dynasties, London 1997, p. 308, fig. 363.