A set of three Chinese armorial 'Valckenier' plates

CIRCA 1735-1749

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A set of three Chinese armorial 'Valckenier' plates
Circa 1735-1749
The centre painted with a large coat of arms of the family Valckenier from Amsterdam with a shaded pink falcon crest, an inner border of grisaille and gilt grapevine around the well and the rim with three finely painted grisaille views of European towns with the crest at the bottom shown in landscape, rubbing, minor rim nibbles
22.5 cm. diam. (3)

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Please note that the plates in this lot are illustrated horizontally on the top of page 173 in the printed catalogue.

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Various members of the influential Valckenier family were involved with the Dutch East India Company and ordered armorial porcelain, the leading family member being Adriaan Valckenier, Governor-General of the Indies 1737-41. See C.J.A. Jörg and J. van Campen, Chinese Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, London, 1997, p. 303.