A superb Chinese armorial semi-eggshell soup plate, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng period, circa 1734
清雍正 約1734年 外銷粉彩紋章圖盤

Very finely potted with a shallow basin rising to a wide flared rim, painted to the centre with the arms of van Hardenbroek of Utrecht enclosed within double silver rope borders, the rim painted with tree shrews, birds, butterflies and blossoms against a grisaille key-fret ground, with details picked out in gilt, with box

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Dimensions: 21.2cm diameter

Collection of Florence J. Gould;

Sotheby Parke Bernet, Monaco, 27 June 1984, lot 1356;

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, acquired from the above;

The Erving & Joyce Wolf Collection, USA, no. 0733, acquired from the above on June 27, 1984;

Sotheby's, New York; Cross-Currents in America, The Woolf Family Collection, 21 April 2023, lot 662;

Santos Collection

來源：

佛羅倫斯．J．古爾德收藏；

摩納哥蘇富比．帕克．伯內，一九八四年六月二十七日，拍品編號一三五六；

紐約 Ralph M. Chait 畫廊（購自上述來源）；

美國厄文與喬伊絲．沃爾夫收藏，編號〇七三三（於一九八四年六月二十七日購自上述來源）；

紐約蘇富比，二〇二三年四月二十一日，拍品編號六六二；

桑托斯收藏

These arms probably refer to Jan Louis van Hardenbroek, born in Neerlandbroek, Utrecht in 1691. A naval captain serving the Admiralty of Amsterdam beginning in 1713, Hardenbroek married Johanna Charlotte van Renesse van Lockhorst in 1718. He commanded a total of seven warships in the years spanning 1715-1731, and was admitted into the Utrecht nobility in 1734, when he commissioned the porcelain dishes decorated with this coat-of-arms.

Dr. Jochem Kroes, discussing the service, notes that the grisaille decoration, which came into use by Chinese manufactories in the mid-1720s, enjoyed particular popularity among Dutch clients in the 1730s. Praising it as 'exceptional', he places this service chronologically first among the group of Dutch-market services of the period painted with intricate grisaille diaper. See J. Kroes, 'Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the Dutch Market', pp. 27-28, fig. xxv and pp. 259-260, cat. no. 171.

A dish from this commission was sold at Christie's New York, 19 Jan 2024, lot 567 [link].

此紋章應為 Jan Louis van Hardenbroek 所屬。該氏一六九一年生於荷蘭烏特勒支之 Neerlandbroek，自一七一三年起任職阿姆斯特丹海軍上將部隊艦長，一七一八年娶 Johanna Charlotte van Renesse van Lockhorst。其於一七一五至一七三一年間共指揮七艘戰艦，並於一七三四年晉入烏特勒支貴族，同時委託燒造飾此家族紋章之瓷器。

Jochem Kroes 博士於論述此餐具時指出，其灰彩裝飾始見於中國瓷廠一七二〇年代中期，於一七三〇年代尤受荷蘭客戶青睞。他稱此組餐具為「殊為傑出」之作，並將其置於當時荷蘭市場諸多精細灰彩錦地瓷器餐具之首例。參見 J. Kroes，《為荷蘭市場燒造的中國紋章瓷》， 第27–28頁，圖版 xxv；及第259–260頁，編號 171。

另見一件同組瓷碟，曾於紐約佳士得二〇二四年一月十九日拍賣，編號五六七。