Description:
Chinese export procelain, octagonal dish decorated in underglaze blue with an eight-sided lotus with the arms of De Haze of Middelburg, Holland, in the center. From the 17th to the begining of the 18th century, the De Haze family was one of the leading patrician families of Middelburg. Huijbrech de Haze (1681-1732), an alderman of Middelberg, had two sons, Hubrecht (1681-1732) and Elias (1689-1752), both of whom served in the East Indies. Elias de Haze first went to the Indies in 1719 and became Governor of Ternate from 1731-1734. Elias married his first wife Sara Sonmans (d. Sept. 13,1741) in Batavia on September 23, 1738, and his second wife, Catharine Emants (1715-1782) in The Hague in 1744. This set was made in the same period as a similar service with the De Haze and Sonmans arms accollé, which must have been ordered after September 1738 but before September 1741 when she died. The medallion in the heart of the lotus, has a coat of arms with two six-pointed stars over a running animal with a small tail (could be a hare, rabbit, fox, hound, etc.) on a base. Above the shield is a coronet, and the supporters are two griffins or dragon-like figures standing on a scrolled pedestal. Each lotus petal contains a stemmed lotus flower on a spiralling diaper background; there is a narrow band of spirals around the rim edge; and there are four sprigs painted on the reverse of the rim. The lotus pattern was popular in Persia and India and was made for those market more frequently; it is also found on later English delftware. Rim chip filled, otherwise perfect.
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