peinte au centre d'un portrait de Willem Deurhoff (1650-1717), entouré de quatre cartouches polylobés abritant des scènes bibliques sur fond d'oiseaux et fleurs, le pourtour extérieur agrémenté d'oiseaux dans des cartouches et feuilles d'acanthe, la base avec une inscription en hollandais, socle en bois (2).

A rare Dutch-decorated dish with the portrait of Willem Deurhoff, Qing dynasty, ca. 1750

Provenance: Eugène Van Herck & Fils, Antwerp (according to label).
A. de Curte Collection, Antwerp.
Van Herck, 10th May 1932, lot 44.

Note: The portrait of Willem Deurhoff (1650-1717) painted on this dish is based on an etching by the Dutch engraver Bernard Picart. Compare with a very similar, slightly larger dish, similarly painted with a portrait of Willem Deurhoff surrounded by the same biblical scenes, in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, illustrated in Christiaan J. A. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The Ming and Qing Dynasties, Amsterdam, 1997, p. 88, cat. no. 1122.

 Bernard Picart, Portrait of Willem Deurhoff (1650-1717)