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A RARE AND LARGE ENAMELED AND GILT ARMORIAL These arms are first recorded accollée for Jan de Heere and his
BOTTLE VASE FOR THE DUTCH FAMILY DE HEERE (unidentified) wife in 1704. They are first recorded as the impaled form
Qianlong period, circa 1749-1763 (seen on this vessel) on a seal in Middleburg in 1735 as belonging to
The slender vase with oviform body and tall flaring neck, standing on Johan de Heere, probably the son of Jan. He was married in about
a spreading foot, boldly enameled principally in iron-red, green and 1730 to Maria Eversdijk and died before 1749, leaving a son Huijbert
extensive gilding with a large simple coat-of-arms on one side on an and a daughter Susanna.
entirely plain ground incised horizontally with three underglaze ribbed
bands. Huijbert Johan de Heere (1731-1777) is almost certainly the man who
16in (41cm) high ordered this service. He left Holland in 1749, as a junior merchant for
the VOC on the East Indiaman Gustaaf Willem, arriving in Batavia. By
$8,000 - 12,000 1751 he was a supercargo at Mocha and resident of Gamron, Persia.
In 1752 he moved to Bantam, Java, and then from 1754 to 1763
乾隆時期 約1749-1763年 綠伊萬里荷蘭De Heere家族盾徽高足長頸瓶 he was in Palembang (Sumatra), where in 1758 he married Jacoba
Frederica Nemegheer (1733-1798). He returned to Goes (Holland)
Published: in 1763 with three young sons Jan, Pieter and Willem on the East
Cohen & Cohen, Hit & Myth, Antwerp, 2014-B, pp. 122-123, no. 70 Indiaman Nieuwland, probably bringing these porcelains with him.
出版： This is a very unusual shape for a vase, with no other example
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Hit & Myth》，安特衛普，2014 recorded in Chinese export porcelain. The form is probably not of
年-B，頁122-123，圖版編號70 Chinese origin and most probably follows a Dutch 17th century metal
or glass vessel or flask. The three groups of rings incised into the
In 1865, the arms on this service were wrongly attributed to the biscuit body at the waist, shoulder and neck are very suggestive of
Nijssem family and then by the early 20th century they were called decorative bands on metal vessels.
‘de Heere van der Holy’, as these arms were carried in the early 19th
Century by Pieter Jansz. de Heere van der Holy (1768-1815) who This single service is known to have included a range of rare shapes,
acquired the manor of Vlaardingen in 1802. He was distantly related to including three covered tankards and an elongated teapot. The
the de Heere family but lived too late to have ordered this service. dramatic design, with the complete absence of any enameled border
or other embellishment, is very rare for Chinese armorial porcelains as
The arms are of de Heere of Middelburg, Goes and Dordrecht an old these were all individual private-commission services often ordered
family of this region. One early ancestor was the 16th century painter by newly successful metropolitan families (especially in London)
Lucas de Heere (1534-84) who worked in England and possibly whose financial success encouraged flamboyant decoration to flaunt
trained Marcus de Gheerhaerts the Younger and Robert Peake the the family arms to friends and competitors. The style is reminiscent
Elder. Another with more relevant VOC credentials was Gerrit de of some early Dutch Delft armorial pieces and is probably inspired
Heere, Governor of Ceylon for the VOC in 1697; and other family by them. The lack of other decoration also makes the dating of this
members were involved in the VOC in Asia and South Africa in the service difficult. A similar dinner service, and a tea service, both with
early 18th century. this minimalist stye of supporting decoration are recorded; the shapes
of the tureens in the dinner service suggest a date of about 1760, but
the teapot in the tea service is of earlier type.

References: Jörg, 1997, no. 366, p. 310, a bowl; Jörg, 1989, no.
94, p. 240, a smaller plate; Kroes, 2007, no. 424, p. 501, for more
examples from this service and information about the original order
to China; and ibid., no. 425, a plate, dated about 1735-40 with same
arms but very different border decoration; and Litzenburg, 2003, no.
102, p. 114, a large dish.

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