Large porcelain dish with armorial decoration for the German - Lot 96

Large porcelain dish with armorial decoration for the German market (Anhalt). China. Qianlong period (1736-1795), circa 1750 Provenance: Jorge Welsh, Lisbon Decorated in famille rose enamels, finely painted in Anhalt-Zerbst and Holstein-Gottorp. Foliage border. The complex coat of arms painted on this dish is that of Christian Auguste (1690-1747), Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst and his wife Jeanne-Élisabeth de Holstein-Gottorp (1712-1760), daughter of the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and sister of Adolphe Frédéric, King of Sweden between 1751 and 1771. The couple's first child, Princess Sophie-Auguste- Fédérale d'Anhalt-Zerbst (1729-1796), later became Catherine II of Russia. A plate from this commission, from the Albuquerque Albuquerque collection, is illustrated by Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos, The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector's Vision, Vol. III, London, 2011, cat. n. 519, A terrine and other pieces from this service are illustrated by John Goldsmith Phillips, China-Trade Porcelain: An Account of Its Historical Background, Manufacture, and Decoration and a Study of the Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Cambridge, 1956, pl. 27/28, where the arms were wrongly attributed to the Dukes of Anhalt. Size: 33 cm x 24 cm