Large porcelain dish and two plates with armorial decoration - Lot 88

Large porcelain dish and two plates with armorial decoration for the Dutch market (van Herzeele). China. Qianlong period (1736-1795) Provenance: François and Nicole Hervouët Collection, no. 357 Painted and gilded with the arms of the van Herzeele family, with supports representing lions and griffins, on a floral background in bianco-sopra-bianco, with a gilded spearhead frieze and a grisaille border in the style of Le Paquier. The commission is attributed to Pieter van Herzeele (1702- 1783). J. van Herzeele was a director of the VOC. A plate from the Mottahedeh collection is illustrated in Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol. II, p. 395, no. 392; and another is in the Historisch Museum, Rotterdam, illustrated by D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain - Chine de Commande, London, 1974, p. 395. Chine de Commande, London, 1974, fig. 270. See E. Gordon, Collecting Chinese Export Porcelain, London, 1978, p. 29.