QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1740

Details

A PAIR OF CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PLATES FOR THE BELGIAN MARKET
QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1740
Each finely enamelled and embellished in gilt and silver, with the arms of Knyff, the well with a puce cell-pattern band with four stylised lotus cartouches, and the border with delicately-drawn floral motifs

9 in. (23 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's London, 1 December 1997, lot 418.

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Lot Essay

The arms are those of Jacques-Gérard de Knyff, of Antwerp and Brussels, created Hereditary Knight of the Holy Roman Empire on 1 September 1719 by Charles VI, Emperor of Austria. See Henry Maertens de Noordhout, Porcelaines chinoises decorées d'Armoiries belges, Andenne, 1997, pp. 100 and 101 for a dish from this service in the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels.

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