CIRCA 1740

细节

TWO GRISAILLE AND GILT ARMORIAL PLATES FOR THE DUTCH MARKET
Circa 1740
The first a marriage plate finely painted en grisaille and heightened in flesh tones with an allegorical wedding scene within an elaborate arched structure with two columns supporting pseudo-armorial crests; the second, with the arms of Sichterman at the centre below a du Paquier style border
9 in. (23 cm.) diam. (2)

来源

For the first: Paugaert Collection (label)

注意事项

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拍品专文

The design for this marriage plate was copied from the frontispiece of a 17th Century book, and the border design is derived from Meissen porcelain. Plates and dishes with this design were ordered to celebrate marriages of Dutch families and at least six different versions are known, with the coat-of-arms for each family at the top of each column. See the examples illustrated by D. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, 1978, vol.II, no.391; by D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain, 1974, no.284; and in the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, exhibited in Chinese Export Porcelain, 1989/90, catalogue no.78. It is very rare to find pseudo-arms represented by love-birds as in the present example.

Three different services with the arms of Sichterman were made in Chinese porcelain, of which the present is possibly the rarest.