A large blue and white armorial dish with the arms of the Coelho family. Kangxi period (1661–1722), around 1710–1720
A blue and white European style dish, painted to the centre with a coat of arms of the Portuguese Coelho family, consisting of seven hares (coelho) and a lion, surrounded by two broad borders with dense embellishments. Two cracks and rim frits.
Diameter 35.2 cm
The Brazilian-born António de Albuquerque Coelho (1682–1745), who as a mestizo held various administrative posts in the Portuguese colonial empire, most probably commissioned this plate to his father António de Albuquerque Coelho de Carvalho (1655– 1725) during his stay in Macao. His father was Governor General of Rio de Janeiro and Governor of São Paulo from 1709–1713, and Governor of Angola from 1722. The three existing services for members of the Coelho family differ in the number of rabbits (coelho) in the coat of arms. In the present plate there are seven hares in the coat of arms, which can be attributed to the plates owned by the father, while the coat of arms of the young António featured six hares and that of the brother four hares.
清康熙 約1710至1720年
青花古爾露族徽纏枝花卉紋盤
來源: 安東尼奧·德阿爾布克爾克·古爾露·德卡互略 (António de Albuquerque Coelho de Carvalho, 1655–1725)
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可比 Daniel Suebsman, 《Porcelain Treasures of the Kangxi Period》 （康熙瓷器), 陶瓷博物館, 杜塞爾多夫, 2016年, 編號76及Nuno de Castro, 《A Porcelana Chinesa ao tempo do Império》 （帝國時代的中國瓷器）, 巴西/葡萄牙，2007年, 47頁
Provenance
António de Albuquerque Coelho de Carvalho (1655–1725)
Private collection, Bavaria
Literature
Vgl. Daniel Suebsman, Porcelain Treasures of the Kangxi Period, Hetjens, Düsseldorf 2016, no. 76, and Nuno de Castro, Chinese Porcelain at the Time of the Empire, Portugal/Brasil, 2007, p. 47; Metropolitan Museum, New York, no. 62.83, and another one sold at Lempertz, Cologne, 10./11.12.2010, lot 255