A rare pair of armorial plates, early Qianlong, Circa 1740, with the arms of the dutch family van herzeele in gilt and iron-red, an elaborate border en grisaille around the cavetto, 22.8 cm. Provenance: Steinberg Collection, Sotheby's New York, 26th May 2000, lot 76; Collection of Edmund W. Mudge Jr, Literature: see: Howard and Ayers, China for the West, ...the Mottahedeh Collection, 1978, pl 392, p 395 for another example. Also: Historisch Museum, Rotterdam