The quatrefoil stand is enamelled and gilt to the centre with the arms of Sichterman of Groningen showing a squirrel in profile eating a nut, surrounded by floral sprays and precious objects, below flower heads and panels of ruyi-heads on a hexagonal cell-pattern ground at the border.
5¹⁄₂ in. (14 cm.) diam.

Anonymous sale; Christie's Amsterdam, 2 May 2007, lot 159.

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The arms are those of Jan Albert Sichterman (1692-1764), who was a Director of the Dutch East India Company and Governor of Bengal from 1734-1744. Dr. Jochem Kroes identifies four services with these arms. A coffee-pot of this service is illustrated in his publication: Dr. J. Kroes, Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the Dutch Market, Zwolle, 2007, p. 130, cat. no. 31.
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