17th chinese porcelain plate with silver mount

Rare Chinese porcelain soup plate with underglaze cobalt blue decoration.
"Kraak" type model made for export to Europe through the Dutch East India Company.
The marly has a radiant decoration with compartmentalized cartouches decorated with peonies and chrysanthemums, and the central section is decorated with a scholarly scene probably from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms; with three women in traditional clothing and a horseman in front of a mountainous backdrop with stylized waterfalls.

The plate is mounted in a basket shape with a twisted silver handle in the Japanese style.

Very well preserved, with great finesse of the porcelain and decoration.

The porcelain, China, Jiangxi region, Jingdezhen kilns, Ming dynasty, reign of the Wanli Emperor circa 1600-1620.
Mark within a double circle on the reverse.

The silver mount, period of the birth of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Reign of King William I circa 1820-1840

Dimensions:

Diameter: 27.5 cm Depth: approximately 4 cm

A similar plate mounted in a basket is preserved at the National Ceramics Museum (Keramiekmuseum Princessehof) in Leeuwarden.

Our opinion:

The plate we are presenting is a very high-quality version of the famous Kraak-style porcelain made in China and commissioned by the famous Dutch East India Company for export to Europe.
It was mounted in a basket with a Japanese-style silver mount circa 1820-1840.
During this period, which corresponds to the birth of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a cultured court formed around King William I. After decades of turmoil and the end of the Napoleonic Wars, this society was eager to reconnect with the luxury and art of living of the 18th century, and many goldsmiths set about producing the famous porcelains once imported by the renowned East India Company.
The finesse of the silverwork, the quality of the decoration that demonstrates the perfect mastery of Japanese arts, with attachments similar to the spandrels of lacquer cabinets, and the preciousness of oriental porcelain made this production a particularly sought-after court art of this period.