A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL CHARGER FOR THE DUTCH FAMILY TULLEKEN Qianlong period, circa 1750-55 Enameled at the center in black and gilt with the large shield-shape coat of arms above the inscription 'RTulleken', against a plain white ground with iron-red and gilt spearheads at the shallow well and below a wide flat rim with an elaborate pink, blue, white and black 'shell and scroll' rocaille border, the reverse plain. 17in (43cm) diam Footnotes: 乾隆時期 約1750-55年 粉彩描金荷蘭Tulleken家族盾徽大盤 Published Cohen & Cohen, Take Two!, Antwerp, 2017, pp. 104-105, no. 45 出版： 倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Take Two!》，安特衛普，2017年，頁104-105，圖版編號45 Despite the self-evident family written where normally a family motto was placed within a coat of arms, it has not yet been established exactly which member of this ancient family originally commissioned this service, even despite the specific initial R on the dish. Other family branches are in Arnhem, Middelburg and 's-Hertogenbosch, and it may be significant that a member of the Middelburg branch ordered an earlier service in about 1730. A rather convincing attribution was published by Kroes 2007, where the author suggested that this service (if so, it originally was) was ordered by Rutger Tulleken (1702-1750), one scion of the 's-Hertogenbosch branch, whose father and son were also called Rutger. He was a military (not naval) captain in the Oranje-Friesland Regiment, was based in Emden (Germany) towards the end of his life. Kroes suggests that this may have been ordered through the short-lived Emden-based East India Company, possibly as a memorial for Rutger. In about 1740 he married Catharina Bleker (died after 1775), and his elder son Rutger was born in 1741. There is a possible portrait of Rutger by Bernard Accama in the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden. References: Kroes, 2007, p. 326, this service, and p. 148 for an earlier service of about 1730 with the same arms; Cohen & Cohen, 2001, no. 21, p. 25, for a famille rose charger of circa 1730; and Cohen & Cohen, 2005, no. 9, for another charger initialled 'RTulleken'.