A CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL POLYCHROME PORCELAIN CHARGER,Qianlong, circa 1740. The center painted in iron red, overglaze blue, gold, grisaille and pinkish-gray with a large Valckenier coat- of- arms, the rims with iron red, grisaille and gilt sprays.
- 12 1/2 in. diam. Estimate $1,500-2,000
Note : Several members of the influencial Valckenier family of Amsterdam
were senior in the Dutch East India Company and ordered armorial porcelain, the leading example being Adriaan Valckenier, General of the Indies 1737-41. See C.J.A. Jorg, Chinese Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, p. 303
PROVENANCE: The Van Lennep family of Amsterdam
