1985.R.845, Plate, porcelain, Jingdezhen, China, c. 1745

The shell and scroll border seen on this plate was fashionable on Chinese export porcelain between approximately 1745 and 1755. The inner border of small flowers is generally found through the late 1730s. The presence of both patterns suggests a date of around 1745.

The arms in the center are those of the van Reverhorst family of The Hague in the Netherlands. This plate, part of the second of two services ordered by the family, was most likely commissioned by Theodorus van Reverhorst (1706-1758), who served as a member of the Court of Justice in Batavia for the Dutch East India Company from 1735 to 1752. The small coats of arms around the well of the dish are those of eight ancestral families of the van Reverhorsts. The maternal line is on the right side, and the paternal ancestors are on the left. The families are van Reverhorst, Vereyck de Winter, de Bruyn, Shrevelius, van Groenendijk, van Peenen, and de Vroede. 

Dallas Museum of Art, Decorative Arts Highlights from the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1995), 107.

Until 1967: Jade Company L'Administrateur, Geneva, Switzerland [1] 

1967: Emery Reves (1904-1983), purchased from Jade Company L'Administrateur, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2, 1967 [1] 

1967-1985: Emery Reves (1904-1983) and Wendy Reves (1916-2007) (owned jointly), La Pausa, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France [1][2]

From 1985: Dallas Museum of Art, The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, gift of Wendy Reves (1916-2007) [2]

[1] According to an original invoice found in the object file from Jade Company L'Administrateur, Geneva, Switzerland (dated June 2, 1967).

[2] According to: Olivier Meslay and Martha MacLeod, From Chanel to Reves (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art, 2015), 4-5.

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