Chinese porcelain plate. Qianlong, 18th century. Contoured... Lot 34

Chinese porcelain plate. Qianlong, 18th century. Contoured shape, decorated with the enamels of the Rose Family, in the centre a coat of arms surmounted by a helmet in a medallion formed by a frieze of ironwork, the wing of a frieze of shells, gold filet on the edge, small wears. D: 22.5 cm Provenance: The coat of arms is that of the Guillot family from Amsterdam. The Guillot family, originally from Bordeaux, settled in Amsterdam to become wealthy merchants. Elias Guillot (Bordeaux 1695 - Batavia 1743), becomes Governor in 1733 of the Coromandel coast and dies without descendants in 1743 in Batavia. For another plate with a very close blue-white border, see by David S. Howard, The choice of the private trader, The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain illustrated from the Hodroff collection, Italy, 1994, p. 84. For a Japanese porcelain version and a copy of Samson, see by Jochem Kroes, Chinese armorial porcelain for the Dutch market: Chinese porcelain with coats of arms of Dutch families, The Hague, 2007, p. 324, no. 242. EGRENURES