China - Lot 6

China Large round porcelain dish decorated in blue, red, green, pink and gold with the coat of arms of the province of Hainaut Henegouwes in a shield in the center, accompanied by the inscription HENEGOUWES in a banner, surmounted by a crown and flanked by two figures of Chinese women standing in a portico, the wing decorated with flowering prunus and animated lakescapes in reserves on a trellis background. Yongzheng period (1722-1733), circa 1725 D. 44.5 cm. A piece glued to the rim and a crack. BIBLIOGRAPHY C. Le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, 1974, pp. 38-39. M. Beurdeley, Porcelaine de la Compagnie des Indes, 1962, no. 64, p. 96. W.R. Sargent, Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics from the Peabody Essex Museum, 2012. Four sets of dishes, plates or beard dishes, decorated with the coats of arms of the main cities and provinces of the United Netherlands, but also of France and England, were made in China in the 1720's. Thirty-three different coats of arms are now listed. Clare Le Corbeiller has suggested that these dishes were commissioned to commemorate the Triple Alliance between Holland, France and England in 1717. Our dish, whose Chinese figures are decorated in the famille-rose palette, belongs to the most elaborate series, dated around 1725. A dish from the same series bearing the inscription Holland recently sold with Etude Pescheteau-Badin (Paris sale, December 13, 2019, lot 236), another with the inscription Artoys at Sotheby's Paris, (sale December 17, 2014, lot 311).