Asian Art I - 17th November 2015
Lot 229
A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE SMALL ARMORIAL PLATE KANGXI 1662-1722 Made for the Dutch market
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £900
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Description
A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE SMALL ARMORIAL PLATE
KANGXI 1662-1722
Made for the Dutch market, painted with a single pheasant perched on rocks beneath large peony blooms, the rim with the arms of Pelgrans encircled by alternating shell motifs and foliate roundels, the base with a twin fish mark, 20.8cm.
Provenance: from the collection of Anthony Du Boulay, purchased from Bluett's in 1972.
Cf. D Howard and S Ayers, China for the West, p.82, where another plate of this design is illustrated, and where it is noted this service was made for Jacob Pelgrans, a Director of the Dutch East India Company who lived in Bengal from 1702-8, and died in Batavia in 1713.
Exhibited: The Oriental Ceramic Society, The World of Blue and White, 2003, no.40.