GALERIE NICOLAS FOURNERY

A Chinese armorial plate for the Belgian market (familles de Dam et de Maulde). Qianlong period

After a silvered form, decorated in the famille rose palette with sprays of flowers on the rim, and to the center, the coat-of-arms of Jean-Charles-Henri baron van Dam d’Audignies and Marie-Philippine de Meulde de la Deuze, dame de Thiant.

Country:
China
Period :
Qianlong period (1736-1795), ca. 1765
Material:
Porcelain
Dimension:
9.25 in. (23.5 cm)
Reference :
C696
Status:
sold

Related works

An identical plate is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), inventory number AK-NM-13425 (formerly in the J.G.A.N. de Vries collection, 1925). See Jan Van Campen, Supplement to Chinese ceramics in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam : the Ming and Qing dynasties / Jan van Campen ; in collab. with Christiaan J.A. Jörg, 1997.

See also Henry Maertens de Noordhout, Porcelaines chinoises ‘Compagnie des Indes’ decorées d’armories Belges, p. 86 (for a tureen, probably from the collection of Alberto Pinto (sold at Christie’s Paris, Collection Alberto Pinto, 12/14 septembre 2017, lot 338).

This service is also illustrated by a tureen and an oblong dish, by Nicole de Bisscop in Séductions Chinoises, p. 211, no.6.53.

Notice

The arms are those of colonel Messire Jean-Charles-Henri baron van Dam d’Audignies and Marie-Philippine de Meulde de la Deuze, dame de Thiant, see Archeologie des Familles de Belgique, by Felix-Victor Goethals, p.112.

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