CIRCA 1740-1745

Details

A blue and white armorial 'Sichterman' pattipan
Circa 1740-1745
The quatrefoil sides centred by a gilt and iron-red coat-of-arms surmounted by a coronet, surrounded by four underglaze-blue clusters of peonies and chrysanthemum, the straight well and everted rim encircled by floral borders
18.7 cm. diam.

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Lot Essay

The arms are probably those of Jan Albert Sichterman, who was a Director of the Dutch East India Company and Governor of Bengal from 1734-1744. Three services are known with these arms (see also lot numbers 1076 and 1077). The arms have been attributed to the French family of de Fouquet, whose arms are similar, and indeed the de Fouquet ancestrial home of Le Chateau de la Grange, in Manom, Lorraine has an extensive service with these arms, but the coronet is neither that of a French count nor a duke, but is very similar to a Dutch 'burggraaf'. For a discussion on these families, see D.S. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, London, 1978, vol.II, p.401, where a large vase and cover from the same service as the present lot is illustrated; and C.J.A. Jörg and J. van Campen, Chinese Ceramics in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, London, 1997, p. 306, pl. 359.

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