A large Chinese Imari armorial dish

The design of this dish was inspired by a Japanese Imari prototype with the addition of the central coat-of-arms. It is not entirely certain for which family this dish was comissioned. There is the possibility that it was ordered for the French families Corbel of Brittany or Corbet of Normandy. Although Dr. Jochem Kroes from the Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie in the Hague suggests that it may have been made for a Dutch Huguenot family in Rotterdam named Corbeau around 1720.

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