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19. Armorial plate, painted in the centre with the Dutch arms of the Chastelein family of Leiden and Amsterdam or the
French arms of the Chasteleyn family, heightened in blue and green enamel, iron-red, gilt and silver encircled in the
cavetto by an underglaze-blue floral, bead and scroll band, the rim with four precious objects and flower sprays encircled
by a chain linked border, the underside with underglaze-blue butterflies and flower sprays after a design by Cornelis
Pronk (1691-1759).
9 �⁄₁₆ inches, 23.3 cm diameter.
Early Qianlong, circa 1740.
• From the collection of Dr Hardouin, Nantes, western France.
• An identical plate, bequest of J. G. A. N. de Vries, The Hague, 1925, is illustrated by Christiaan J. A. Jörg in Chinese
Ceramics in the Collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, no. 356, p. 304, where the author notes ‘Members of the
family held important positions on the councils of the cities of Leiden and Amsterdam and Cornelis Anthony
Chastelein (1713-1787) was Burgomaster of Leiden and the director of the Dutch West India Company and it was
probably he who ordered the service through his Dutch relatives’; another plate, from the Klatte-De Waal Collection,
Overveen, Holland, is illustrated by D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer in Chinese Export Porcelain, Chine de Commande,
no. 263, where the author notes ‘There are also plates (Plate 263) decorated entirely in underglaze blue, with the
exception of the coat of arms of the Chasteleyn family, which was executed in polychrome enamels in the centre.’

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