Lot Essay
This portrait is taken from a mezzotint by Petrus Schenk (1660-1718) illustrated in Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700, Vol. XXV, no. 978 and no. 977, which was based on an earlier engraving after a portrait of the twelve year old Lord Burghley by William Wissing (1686). The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has a plate like these in its collection and is illustrated by D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain, pl. 252. A set of six similar plates were sold in our Amsterdam Rooms on 26 October 1993, lot 222
Cf. Howard & Ayers, China for the West, vol I, p. 249-250, pl. 244; for similar plates see Hervouët & Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, p. 71, pl. 3.17 and Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain, p. 145, pl. 252 and pl. 253.
Cf. Howard & Ayers, China for the West, vol I, p. 249-250, pl. 244; for similar plates see Hervouët & Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, p. 71, pl. 3.17 and Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain, p. 145, pl. 252 and pl. 253.