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A Warsaw (Belvedere) faience dated Imari plate from the Sultan Abdul Hamid I service

1776

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A Warsaw (Belvedere) faience dated Imari plate from the Sultan Abdul Hamid I service
1776
Painted with a jardiniere of flowers on a fenced terrace, the blue-ground well reserved with six panels divided by gilt trellis ornament, four of the panels with a Turkish inscription, within a broad blue border within red and gilt chrysanthemums dividing three shaped panels of birds and a butterly among flowering shrubs, the underside with trailing flowering branches and a diaper border, gilt-line rim (rim repair at three o'clock, small restored rim chip and another rim chip)
9¾ in. (25 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

This service, the design of which was derived from Chinese Kangxi originals, was given by Stanislas Augustus Poniatowski (King Stanislas II of Poland) to Sultan Abdul Hamid I of Turkey in 1776. The inscription at the well reads 'These gifts were sent as a sign of friendship and a token of good relations with the Emperor to the Sultan, a Khalif of the House of Osman, The City of Warsaw'. Other pieces from this service were sold in these Rooms on 8th April 1974, lots 113-114, and by Christie's Geneva on 17th November 1980, lot 11. For a soup-plate formerly in the Ole Olsens and Count Stephen Zamoyski Collections, and now in the Campbell Museum Collection, New Jersey, USA, see C.C. Dauterman et. al., Selections from the Campbell Museum Collection (Camden, 1983), p. 126.

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