A CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL EGGSHELL SOUP PLATE circa 1730-35

painted in the center with the arms of Van Hardenbroek within a grisaille and oxidized silver cable roundel repeated around the inner edge of the rim above a grisaille fretwork border of ruyi lappets, the similarly patterned rim interrupted with brown tree squirrels, famille-rose birds and oxidized silver and gold butterflies and floral sprigs. 

The collection of Baronne Pangaert d'Opdorp, sold, Sotheby's, London, February 27, 1973, lot 288
Mrs. Helen Glatz, London
The collection of François Hervouët, Belgium, no. 478
Sold, Sotheby's, New York, October 23, 1992, lot 149

New York, International Asian Art Fair, 2002

Excellent, very minor gilding wear to edge and stacking wear. Hervoët sticker.
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An identical soup plate is illustrated by Kroes, p. 27, pl. XXV and p. 259, cat. no. 171, where the author relates on pp. 259-260 that "originally this plate was probably part of a set of 24 dessert plates which was still family property in 1788...  At that time it was used for dessert, porridge or pudding."  The service probably was commissioned by Johan Louis van Hardenbroek (1691-1747), who married Johanna Charlotte van Renesse van Lockhorst in 1718 and served the Admiralty of Amsterdam from 1713 to 1734.  The service might have been ordered on the occasion of van Hardenbroek's retirement from naval service in 1734.  Another identical soup plate was sold at Christie's in New York on January 21, 1999, lot 18.