A FINE ARMORIAL BASIN

CIRCA 1724

细节

A FINE ARMORIAL BASIN
Circa 1724
The center boldly painted with a large coat-of-arms of Verney with Heath in pretence flanked by spotted antelope supporters, surmounted by a coronet with rose velvet and above banners inscribed VERTUE VAUNCETH in script, all within a band of gilt and iron-red diaper pattern interrupted by four still-life panels, the rim with four clumps of flowering boughs in Kakiemon colors
16in. (40.6cm.) diameter

出版

D.S. Howard, A Tale of Three Cities: Canton, Shanghai and Hong Kong, London, 1997, p. 101

拍品专文

Like the famous Lambert porcelain, this service, made for George Verney, the 12th Lord Willoughby de Broke, who married Mary, daughter of Sir John Heath, in 1683, displays the very beginnings of the famille rose enamels. The first part of the service, probably made about 1720, was in the rouge-de-fer and gilt pattern then so fashionable, with no pink, and the motto in capitals. Howard explains (Chinese Armorial Porcelain, pp. 200-01) that a second commission must have been sent about four years later, which resulted in this dish, among others, showing the then-available rose. Like Sir John Lambert's, the death of Lord Willoughby de Broke (in 1728) establishes a terminus ante quem for the rose enamel.