CIRCA 1760-1765

Details

An armorial plate
Circa 1760-1765
Enamelled predominantly in iron-red, green and gilt with the coat-of-arms of the De Heere van Holy family from Dordrecht, surmounted by a star above a helmet, all within feathery mantling and supported on a Louis XV-style bracket below, some wear, glaze fritting
22.8 cm. diam.

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Lot Essay

This service must have been commissioned by Huijbert Johan de Heere (d.1777) who worked for the VOC in the Dutch East Indies from 1740 till 1763. For an example of a bowl see C. Jörg and J. van Campen, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, London, 1997, p. 310, fig. 366. A plate bearing the same coat-of-arms was sold in our Amsterdam Rooms, 8 December 1998, lot 216 (part); a cup and saucer and a covered tankard were sold 12 May 1999, lots 208 and 211.

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