A CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL PLATE FOR THE DUTCH MARKET, CIRCA 1745 |

painted in the center with the arms of Theodorus van Reverhorst

Collection of Rafi and Mildred Mottahedeh
Sotheby's New York, January 27, 1988, lot 437

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, The Mottahedeh Collection, In Celebration of "The Collector of the Year", January-October 1982

David Howard and John Ayers, China for the West, Vol. II, New York, 1978, pp. 400-401, no. 398

There is a hairline in the well of the plate extending diagonally from 6 o'clock to 10 o'clock measuring approx. 4 1/2 in., and there are two minute chips to the rim edge at 7 and 12 o'clock. There is minor wear to the enamel and gilding on the center arms.
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