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A POLYCHROME AND GILT ARMORIAL CUP AND SAUCER
Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, 1745 circa
the cup 3,6 cm high, the saucer 9,6 cm diam
Provenance: Naples, Villa della Floridiana, Museo Duca di Martina, Placido de Sangro (1829-1891) collection.
inv. n. 3984.
The central and larger coat of arms – a quartered coronet shield surmounted by a winged horse – could be referred to Theodorus van Reverhorst (1706-1758), a member of the VOC’s Council of Justice at Batavia who came back to Holland in 1752. The surrounding smaller coats of arms – each with the family’s name below (Van Peene, Van Groenendyck, De Vroede, De Bruyn, Vereyck, De Winter, Van Reverhorst) – are probably those of allied families.
Pieces with this coat of arms are published in Ottema 1946, fig. 264 (Leewarden, Pricessehof), M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London 1962, n. 174 (Paris, Musée Guimet), D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain, Chine de Commande, London 1974, fig. 264 (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum), C. Le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, New York 1974, pp. 97-98, n. 40 (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, where another piece with same coat of arms is also present, inv. 48.172.14,15), D. Howard – J. Ayers, China for the West. Chinese Porcelain and other Decorative Arts for Export illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection, 2 voll., London – New York 1978, II, n. 598; a larger dish and a cup and saucer with the same coat of arms are in the Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire in Bruxelles (Ancient Chinese Trade Ceramics from Musès Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Bruxelles, exhibition catalogue, Beijing 1992, p. 65).
