CHINA - Lot 92

CHINA Soup plate in porcelain with polychrome decoration in famille rose enamels in the center of a view of the river Ij and the Nieuwe Stadsherberg public house in Amsterdam, the side decorated with flowers. 18th century, Qianlong period (1735-1796), circa 1760. D. 22 cm. Bibliography For a discussion of this decoration, see De Nieuwe Stadsherberg in het Ij voor Amsterdam op Chinese porselein, Antiek magazine, 1968, pp. 484-486, plates with the same decoration are reproduced in China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, C. Le Corbeiller, New York 1974, plate 45, p. 108, ; Chinese Export Porcelain, D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, 1974, fig. 243, p. 223, China for the West, D.S. Howard and J. Ayers, 1974, vol. I, London and New York 1978, no. 190, p. 193, A Winterthur Guide to Chinese Export Porcelain, A.M. Palmer, New York 1976, 1976, fig. 59, p. 95; Collecting Chinese Export Porcelain, E. Gordon, 1978, p. 16; La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, F. and N. Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, 1986, fig. 1.3; The Choice of the Private Trader, D.S. Howard, Minneapolis 1994, no. 93, p. 100, Porcelaine de la Compagnie des Indes, M. Beurdeley, Fribourg 1974, p. 194, no. 171; Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics from the Peabody Essex Museum, W.R. Sargent, Salem, MA 2012, p. 256, no. 130; Chinese Export Porcelain, Chine de Commande from the Royal Museums of Art and History in Bruxelles, C.J.A. Jörg, Hong Kong 1989, p. 122/123, no. 37. The Nieuwe Stadsherberg (or de Stadts-Herbergh) was a public building constructed in 1662 and demolished in 1872. It was located on the River Ij in Amsterdam and was a popular place for sailors of the Dutch East India Company (V.O.C.) to spend their last hours before leaving port for the Orient, and often their first hours when returning from their voyage. It has been suggested that plates with this decoration may have been ordered to mark the centenary of the Nieuwe Stadsherberg. This lot is a temporary import. The buyer will be required to pay an import fee of 5.5% (6.6% incl. VAT) of the hammer price, in addition to the usual fees. These additional costs may be refunded to the buyer on presentation of customs documents for export outside the European Union.