A Chinese blue and white armorial 'Pelgrom' dish and a chrysanthemum-shaped bowl

CIRCA 1700-1710 AND KANGXI (1662-1722)

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A Chinese blue and white armorial 'Pelgrom' dish and a chrysanthemum-shaped bowl
Circa 1700-1710 and Kangxi (1662-1722)
The dish painted with a pheasant on rockwork beside peony at the centre encircled by floral vignettes and conch shells, interrupted at the top by the arms of Pelgrom surmounted by a crest and Chinaman, hairline rim crack and small rim chip, 20.5 cm. diam.; and a bowl moulded to the lower half with petals enclosing flowers, the upper part decorated with scholars in a continuous landscape, the base with Chenghua six character mark, minor rim frits, 15.5 cm. diam. (2)

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The arms of the dish are those of Jacob Pelgrom (d. 1713), who went out to Batavia as a merchant in 1688 and eventually became a high-ranking member of the V.O.C., named Director-General of Bengal in 1701 and head of the tax department at Batavia in 1707, where he died in 1713. See C.J.A. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p. 301, fig. 352 and Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London, 1978, no. 39.