A CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL PLATE circa 1725-30

painted in the center in underglaze-blue, famille-verte enamels and gilding with the arms of Scholten impaling Hogenberg within a spearhead-and-dot roundel and a cell diaper border on the cavetto, the rim with four clusters of precious objects and flowering branches within a floral and precious objects border around the edge.  Some very small chips.

The collection of Bruce and Jean Beaudette, sold, Sotheby's, New York, January 31, 1991, lot 360

Miniscule chips under and on rim edge, 1/8 inch fracture on edge at 5 o'clock, minor stacking wear and slight wear to gilding in the arms, chip to footrim.
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For the arms of Scholten of Amsterdam, see Rietstap, Vol. II, p. 721; and for those of Hogenberg of Holland, see ibid., Vol. I, p. 969.  A plate from this service, one of three ordered between 1725 and 1740 by Jan Agges Scholten (1690-1772) of Amsterdam and his wife Petronella Hogenburg (1694-1765), who were married in December 1711, is illustrated by Kroes, p. 35, pl. XXV and p. 123, cat. no. 25.  A large dish from the service was in the collection of Benjamin F. Edwards III, sold at Christie's in New York on January 22, 2002, lot 179; and a tea canister and a pair of teabowls and saucers were in the same collection, sold at Christie's in New York on January 20, 2004, lot 209.