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Lot Essay
Throughout the 17th century Japanese lacquers were exported to Europe. Along the cabinets, coffers and other functional objects, there were rare forms including armorial dishes, ewers and basins. Many of these pieces were used by the VOC as gifts to rulers and high officials. Most of the armorial pieces including shields were privately ordered as they bear personal coats of arms. Armorial dishes with broad flat rims such as this lot may have been shaped after Dutch pewter models.
The first official shipment of lacquer, arranged by Jacques l'Hermite, a manager of the VOC in Bantam, arrived at Texel on the Dutch ship "de Roode Loeuw met de Pijlen" in 1610. He advised the Board of Directors to commission the Japanese to produce lacquer following specifications sent from Europe.
The arms depicted on this dish are attributed to Muinck de Monincx in Flanders in J.B. Rietstap, Armorial General, (London, 1967), vol. 3.
For other examples of armorial lacquer dishes in the collections of Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Peabody Essex Museum in Salem and in a private collection in the Netherlands, see:Oliver Impey and Christiaan Jorg, Japanese Export Lacquer 1580-1850, (Amsterdam, 2005), p. 185, no. 21-26.
For further examples, see Kyoto National Museum ed., Japan makie – kyuden wo kazaru toyo no kirameki – [Export Lacquer: Reflection of the West in Black and Gold Makie], (Osaka, 2008), cat. 63 (Kyushu National Museum)
and go to the website of National Museum of Japanese History:
https://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/outline/publication/rekihaku/133/witness.html
The first official shipment of lacquer, arranged by Jacques l'Hermite, a manager of the VOC in Bantam, arrived at Texel on the Dutch ship "de Roode Loeuw met de Pijlen" in 1610. He advised the Board of Directors to commission the Japanese to produce lacquer following specifications sent from Europe.
The arms depicted on this dish are attributed to Muinck de Monincx in Flanders in J.B. Rietstap, Armorial General, (London, 1967), vol. 3.
For other examples of armorial lacquer dishes in the collections of Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Peabody Essex Museum in Salem and in a private collection in the Netherlands, see:Oliver Impey and Christiaan Jorg, Japanese Export Lacquer 1580-1850, (Amsterdam, 2005), p. 185, no. 21-26.
For further examples, see Kyoto National Museum ed., Japan makie – kyuden wo kazaru toyo no kirameki – [Export Lacquer: Reflection of the West in Black and Gold Makie], (Osaka, 2008), cat. 63 (Kyushu National Museum)
and go to the website of National Museum of Japanese History:
https://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/outline/publication/rekihaku/133/witness.html