BROAD-RIMMED PLATE WITH THE FAMILY ARMS OF ULRICH Winterthur, dated 1682.

BROAD-RIMMED PLATE WITH THE FAMILY ARMS OF ULRICH

Winterthur, dated 1682.
Faience with pale-gray glaze, painted in high-temperature colors. The center with a coat of arms divided vertically, with three stars, surmounted by a helmet and a boy holding two stars in his hands. Flanked by the initials "RU" and the date 1682. The border with a bunch of grapes, a pear, a pomegranate and two plums. Unmarked.
Ø 34 cm.

Provenance:
- Antique dealer in Paris.
- Peter Ducret Collection, Kilchberg; acquired in 1976 from the above source.

According to written correspondence between Peter Ducret and Conrad Ulrich (1926–2020), two individuals named Rudolf Ulrich could have commissioned the piece in 1682: a goldsmith (1629–1688) and a judicial lord of Flaach (1651–1731).
The "Regimentsspiegel" of Zurich Town Hall lists all officeholders from 1490 to 1798, accompanied by their family arms, including that of the Ulrich family (see Swiss National Museum, inv. no. LM-3611).