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A LARGE ENAMELED AND GILT ARMORIAL CHARGER FOR acquitted of his involvement in the massacre, but on his way home he
THE AMSTERDAM/BATAVIA DUTCH FAMILY VALCKENIER was arrested in Cape Town and brought back to Batavia, where he
Qianlong period, circa 1750 was imprisoned during an investigation that was still going on when he
Boldy enameled at the center in iron-red, blue, white, lavender, and died in 1751 (fig.1).
black enamels and gilt with the arms of Valckenier beneath the crest of
a standing displaying heraldic bird, the wide border gilt with three long Kroes lists 15 different designs, among which this one is published as
flowering and blossoming sprays. no. 2C.
18in (45cm) diam
By 1670 some of the family had already settled in the East Indies and
$5,000 - 7,000 their position in the VOC was influential, especially given their residence
in Batavia. This residency gave them ready access to the ‘China
乾隆時期 約1750年 粉彩描金荷蘭阿姆斯特丹Batavia家族盾徽大盤 trade’ as, before the long trip back to Europe, almost all Netherlands-
bound merchant ships would almost certainly have refueled in the
Published: ‘Batavia Roads’, the deep-water anchorage offshore from the VOC
Cohen & Cohen, Baroque & Roll, Antwerp, 2015, pp. 134-135, no. 84 headquarters in Java. This probably explains why there are at least
fifteen different armorial services known with versions of the Valckenier
出版： arms.
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Baroque & Roll》，安特衛普，2015
年，頁134-135，圖版編號84 References: Phillips, 1956, p. 95, plate 22 for a dinner plate from this
service in the Metropolitan Museum; Le Corbeiller, 1974, fig. 47, p. 87,
The Amsterdam-based Dutch family Valckenier was prominent in the a dinner plate from this service in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
VOC (‘Dutch East India Company’) during the 17th and 18th century. The Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, and fig. 46, p. 87, the
The service was most probably commissioned in China for Adriaan blue and white mug with silver mounts; Jörg, 1989, no. 101, p. 254,
Valckenier (1695-1751) who was resident in Batavia from 1715 and a famille rose teapot stand, and tea bowl and saucer in Brussels;
rose through the very hierarchical structure of the VOC to become Howard, 1994, no. 62, p. 79, a dinner plate from this service formerly
bookkeeper, counsel, Director-general and ultimately Governor-General in the Hodroff Collection; no. 61, a dinner plate from the service with
of the Dutch East Indies (1737-41). It is recorded that his career the grisaille scenes; no. 247, p. 211, a jug and cover from this service
ended in great difficulties following his alleged involvement in the tragic and a charger decorated in underglaze blue with three sprays of
massacre of some 10,000 Chinese in 1740, after which he set off flowers on the rim; Litzenberg, 2003, no. 84, p. 100, for a dinner plate
for home on the ship Amsterdam, carrying at least 2,400 pieces of from the service with grisaille panels now in the Reeves Collection;
Chinese porcelain with his coat-of-arms. Valckenier had initially been Kroes 2007, Cat. 36, p. 134, this service, and ibid., Appendix 1G, p.
646, for the author’s list of all the Valckenier services; and Cohen &
Cohen, 2003, no. 17, 35, a Valckenier charger 15in (38cm) diam.

(fig.1) (detail of coat-of-arms from fig.1)

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