A chinese export famille-verte armorial shaving dish Circa 1720

painted in the centre with the arms of Gelderland beneath a coronet above a ribbon inscribed 'Gelderlant' within scrolling peonies and butterflies, the rim with five lobed vignettes of animals and cockerels alternating with pairs of triangular floral lappets, all reserved on a runny underglaze-blue ground, the top of the rim pierced with two suspension holes

A barber's bowl from this series, but with the arms of Meggelen, is illustrated in China for the west, I, p.134, no.113