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Lot 96

BLUE AND WHITE DUTCH-MARKET ARMORIAL PLATE, KANGXI PERIOD

Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer price: £1,600
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
BLUE AND WHITE DUTCH-MARKET ARMORIAL PLATE, KANGXI PERIOD, the densely-decorated composition showing a central bird on a rock amongst flowers within a shell and foliate panel border topped by the arms of the Pelgrom family with a Chinese style figure above, the underside with three precious objects, 20.5cm diam Provenance: Bluett and Sons Ltd London, 7th November 1972 (one of a pair). Exhibited: The World in Blue & White, OCS Exhibition, 2003, no.140. Note: this dish is from one of the earliest armorial services made in China for European consumption. It was commissioned by Jacob Pelgrom (1655-1713), a Dutch East India Company official at Bengal from 1689 and Batavia from 1708. This armorial is well described in Kroes, Jochem, Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the Dutch Market, 2008, cats 5 & 6. For other dishes see Corbeiller, Clare le, China Trade Porcelain, New York 1975, no.8; and Howard, D., and Ayers, J., China for the West, New York 1978, vol.1, p.39.
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