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A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL CHARGER FOR THE Despite the self-evident family written where normally a family motto
DUTCH FAMILY TULLEKEN was placed within a coat of arms, it has not yet been established
Qianlong period, circa 1750-55 exactly which member of this ancient family originally commissioned
Enameled at the center in black and gilt with the large shield-shape this service, even despite the specific initial R on the dish. Other family
coat of arms above the inscription ‘RTulleken’, against a plain white branches are in Arnhem, Middelburg and ‘s-Hertogenbosch, and it
ground with iron-red and gilt spearheads at the shallow well and below may be significant that a member of the Middelburg branch ordered an
a wide flat rim with an elaborate pink, blue, white and black ‘shell and earlier service in about 1730.
scroll’ rocaille border, the reverse plain.
17in (43cm) diam A rather convincing attribution was published by Kroes 2007,
where the author suggested that this service (if so, it originally was)
$2,000 - 3,000 was ordered by Rutger Tulleken (1702-1750), one scion of the
‘s-Hertogenbosch branch, whose father and son were also called
乾隆時期 約1750-55年 粉彩描金荷蘭Tulleken家族盾徽大盤 Rutger. He was a military (not naval) captain in the Oranje-Friesland
Regiment, was based in Emden (Germany) towards the end of his life.
Published: Kroes suggests that this may have been ordered through the short-
Cohen & Cohen, Take Two!, Antwerp, 2017, pp. 104-105, no. 45 lived Emden-based East India Company, possibly as a memorial for
Rutger. In about 1740 he married Catharina Bleker (died after 1775),
出版： and his elder son Rutger was born in 1741. There is a possible portrait
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Tyger Tyger!》，安特衛普，2017年， of Rutger by Bernard Accama in the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden.
頁104-105，圖版編號45
References: Kroes, 2007, p. 326, this service, and p. 148 for an earlier
service of about 1730 with the same arms; Cohen & Cohen, 2001,
no. 21, p. 25, for a famille rose charger of circa 1730; and Cohen &
Cohen, 2005, no. 9, for another charger initialled ‘RTulleken’.

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