Notes:
From the 17th to the beginning of the 18th century, the De Haze family was one of the leading patrician families of Middelburg. Huijbrech de Haze (1681-1732), an alderman of Middelberg, had two sons, Hubrecht (1681-1732) and Elias (1689-1752), both of whom served in the East Indies. Elias de Haze worked for the VOC (Dutch East India Company), notably in Jakarta. He first went to the Indies in 1719 and became Governor of Ternate from 1731-1734. Elias married his first wife Sara Sonmans (d. Sept. 13,1741) in Batavia on September 23, 1738, and his second wife, Catharine Emants (1715-1782) in The Hague in 1744. This set was made in the same period as a similar service with the De Haze and Sonmans arms accollé, which must have been ordered after September 1738 but before September 1741 when she died.
Lotus-petal patterns became popular in Chinese export porcelain of the 1750s (perhaps due to Near Eastern influences, it was popular in Persia and India) and there are numerous examples in famille rose and rouge-de-fer.
For an illustrated pair of plates see Howard & Ayers, China for the West, Vol. II, p. 444, pl. 450. A similar armorial plate was also exhibited at the New York China Institute, 1973-74.
An example can also be found in Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the Dutch Market by Joachim Kroes
