A DUTCH ARMORIAL PLATE AND TEABOWL AND SAUCER WITH MERCHANT'S MARK

DATED 1748

Details

A DUTCH ARMORIAL PLATE AND TEABOWL AND SAUCER WITH MERCHANT'S MARK
DATED 1748
Each enameled with the merchant's mark and arms of Hesslink surmounted by a peacock crest, dated below, the rims with iron-red and gilt spearhead bands
8 5/8 in. (21.8 cm.) diameter, the plate (3)

Provenance

The Mildred R. and Rafi Y. Mottahedeh Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 19 October 2000, lot 261 (the teabowl and saucer).

Literature

Fuchs and Howard, Made in China, p. 123, no. 74 (the teabowl and saucer).
Howard and Ayers, China for the West, vol. II, p. 402, no. 400 (the plate).

Exhibited

Wilmington, 1957, no. 73 (the teabowl and saucer).
Viringia Museum, 1981-2 (the same).

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Lot Essay

This merchant's mark is for Hendrick Hesslink (1723-80) of the Netherlands. His post at Doetinchen in Gelderland was similar to that of a poor-law commssioner. As Ron Fuch's notes in Made in China, merchant's marks were painted on crates and bundles, acting like shipping labels, and often wealthy merchants developed their own "pseuduo-armorial porcelain" using their mark and incorprating arms of families with similar names.

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