Live Auction 2866The Decorative Arts Sale
A set of three Chinese armorial 'Valckenier' plates
Lot 431

A set of three Chinese armorial 'Valckenier' plates

CIRCA 1735-1749

Closed22 June 2011

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EUR 1,875

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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)

Specialist note

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.