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Dish with flared rim, on a foot ring. On the base a conch-shell in a double ring. In the centre a pheasant near a rock and flowering peony. Covering the well and the rim, reserved on a wide border of scrolling lotus with four large blooms the coat of arms of the Pelgrom family and three quatrefoil panels with flower sprays. The back with three fruit sprays.
The dish shows a rather unconventional decoration of a formal lotus scroll curving in such a way as to form the central medallion. The relative flatness of the flowers and leaves is typical of the period. The dish was possibly made for Jacob Pelgrom, a director of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and resident in Bengal in 1702-1708. He died in Batavia in 1713. The dish was probably part of a service as eight examples are in the Topkapi Saray in Istanbul.
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