Lot 222
222
A RARE SET OF SIX 'PETRUS DE WOLFF' PORTRAIT PLATES, decorated in grisaille, gilding, copper-red and blue enamels with the portrait of 'The Lord Burghley the gentleman elegantly attired, leaning on his gun, standing beside a dog in a landscape with an European style pavilion in the background, the well with a cartouche with the words 'PETRUS DE WOLFF PETR FIL' and three flower panels reserved on a band of foliate scrolls, the border with four flower-sprays, the rim with a garland of scrolling foliage (one plate with rim crack, some enamels slightly flaked), Qianlong

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A RARE SET OF SIX 'PETRUS DE WOLFF' PORTRAIT PLATES, decorated in grisaille, gilding, copper-red and blue enamels with the portrait of 'The Lord Burghley the gentleman elegantly attired, leaning on his gun, standing beside a dog in a landscape with an European style pavilion in the background, the well with a cartouche with the words 'PETRUS DE WOLFF PETR FIL' and three flower panels reserved on a band of foliate scrolls, the border with four flower-sprays, the rim with a garland of scrolling foliage (one plate with rim crack, some enamels slightly flaked), Qianlong
22.6cm. diam. (6)

Lot Essay

This portrait is taken from an engraving by Pieter Schenk (1660-1718) illustrated in Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700, Vol.XXV, no.978 and no.977. The engraving is after the picture of John Cecil, Lord Burleigh, later sixth Marquess of Exeter, painted in 1686 by William Wissing. A similar plate is in the Rijksmuseum and is illustrated by Scheurleer, Chine de Commande, pl.244. A teabowl and saucer with similar decoration of the Mottaha bedeh Collection is illustrated by Howard and Ayers, China for the West, Vol.I, no. 244 and 244a

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