Pair of Chinese export porcelain chargers decorated in opaque enamels from the famille rose (fencai) palette with the arms of VALCKENIER of Amsterdam, Yongzheng reign.

Large and fine pair of Chinese export porcelain chargers decorated in opaque enamels from the famille rose (fencai) palette with the arms of VALCKENIER of Amsterdam, c. 1735, Yongzheng reign, Qing dynasty, d. 40 cm, 15¾ in. 5.7083

Illustrated: Qing Export Porcelain, by A. Varela Santos, 2015/2016, cat. 60.

Literature:

• China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, by C. Le Corbeiller, New York 1974, pp. 86/88, cat. 34 for a similar one and two others;

• China Trade Porcelain, by J.G. Phillips, p. 95, plate 22 for a plate with the same pattern;

• The Choice of the Private Trader, by D.S. Howard, Minneapolis 1994, p. 79, cat. 62 for a similar dinner plate and 211, cat 247 for a covered ewer of this service and a plate decorated in under-glaze blue;

• Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, by C.J.A. Jörg, London 1997, p. 303, cat. 355 for a plate with this coat of arms but with another pattern of decoration.

◆ Adriaan Valckenier was born in Amsterdam 6th June 1695 and died in Batavia 20 June 1751. He left Amsterdam in 1714 for Batavia where he started his working life as a junior merchant, progressing to senior merchant, alderman of the city (1726-7), accountant-general (1627), councillor extraordinary (1730), councillor ordinary (1733) and on the 20th August 1736 appointed first councillor and director-general of the Dutch East Indies (VOC). He resigned in 1741 due to his role in the riots of 1740 where many innocent Chinese were killed.

When the East Indiaman “Amsterdam” sank in 1741 near the Shetland Islands nearly 2400 pieces of porcelain with his arms were lost. Today few survive.

He is known to have ordered 7 dinner services with a total of 15 varieties of border pattern.

The family have borne these arms since 1630.

大而精美的中國外銷瓷粉彩圓盤一對，繪有荷蘭阿姆斯特丹Valckenier家族族徽，約1735年，直徑40釐米，15¾ 英吋。

插图:《清代外銷瓷》, 阿.瓦瑞拉.桑托斯, 2015/2016,目录 60。

參考文獻：

•《中國貿易瓷：式樣交換》，作者C. Le Corbeiller，1974年紐約出版，參見86-88頁編號34近器一 件及其餘物品兩件；

•《中國貿易瓷》，作者J.G. Philips，參見第95頁圖版22一件繪相同式樣的盤子；

•《私人貿易者的選擇》，作者D.S. Howard，1994年明尼阿波利斯出版，參見第79頁編號62一 件相似的晚餐用盤，第211頁編號247出自同套餐具的帶蓋水罐和一件青花盤子；

•《阿姆斯特丹國立博物館藏中國陶瓷》，作者C.J.A Jörg，1997年倫敦出版，參見第303頁編號355 繪相同徽章卻帶不同式樣的一件盤子；

◆ 埃德里安·華爾庚尼爾生於1695年6月6日荷蘭阿姆斯丹，死於1751年6月20日巴達維亞。他在1714 年離開阿姆斯特丹前往巴達維亞，開始他是一名初級商人，隨後成為高級商人，市議員（1726-7），總會計師（1727），特別議員（1730），普通議員（1733），隨後在1736年8月20日被任命為荷蘭東印度公司（VOC）的首席委員及總督。1741年他因使許多華人無辜喪命的大屠殺而辭職。1741年東印度公司的“阿姆斯特丹號”沉于蘇格蘭設得蘭群島附近，致使近2400件帶有他家族族徽的瓷器丟失，今天也只有少量留存。華爾庚尼曾定制7套餐具，共15種不同的邊飾紋樣。華爾庚尼家族自1630年起開始擁有這些家族族徽。