A LARGE CHINESE IMARI ARMORIAL CHARGER

CIRCA 1720

细节

A LARGE CHINESE IMARI ARMORIAL CHARGER
Circa 1720
The rounded sides rising to a wide, flared rim, painted in the center with the arms of van Overveldt beneath a banderole inscribed with the motto PAMEN within a roundel surrounded by three mythical beasts standing atop rockwork against a backdrop of peony stems, the three separated by ruyi-shaped extensions of the somewhat free-form peony and chrysanthemum-filled border, all in underglaze blue, iron-red, grisaille and gilding
20 in. (52 cm.) diam.

拍品专文

A very similar dish is illustrated by Anthony du Boulay in Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1984, p. 261, pl. 7. Compare, also, the dish sold at Sotheby's, New York, October 23, 1992, lot 140