Charlotte Roelofsen
Head of Netherlands
Lot 154*
A pair of oval Delftware plaques, circa 1760-70
21 November 2023, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £4,480 inc. premium
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Charlie Thomas
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A pair of oval Delftware plaques, circa 1760-70
Decorated in polychrome colours including manganese-black, with courting scenes in blue surrounded by formal borders enclosing four cartouches with shipping scenes of Dutch Galleons flying the red, white and blue flag alternated with cartouches of formal hedged gardens, likely related to engravings or prints after Petrus Schenk, 32cm wide x 3cm deep x 36.5cm high, (12 1/2in wide x 1in deep x 14in high) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance
With Joachim Davids, Rotterdam (paper label to the reverse);
Sotheby's, Amsterdam, Porcelain and Glass, 20 March 1996, Lot 45.
Exhibited
Art Basel, 1996.
Petrus Schenk (1660-1711), who was responsible for the print sources so often reproduced on Chinese export porcelain, produced various sets of engravings of Dutch views. These include the gardens of Dutch country houses such as Duinrell, Rozendael and the Royal Palace of Het Loo. They were collectively published in Paradisium oculorum; sive Conspectus elegantissimi centym..' from 1703. Schenk was not the only source used, the famous topographical publication De Segepraalende Vecht, Vertoonende verscheidene Gesichten van Lustplaatsen published in Amsterdam in 1719 contains 98 engravings by Daniel Stoopendaal (1672-1726) of houses and gardens along the Vecht river.
The repetition of the same scene on this plaque indicates a standardisation of these print sources, and is with great exception one can identify these locations with certainty on Dutch Delftware plaques (see: S.Lambooy, Dutch Delftware Plaques: a Blueprint for Delft, Aronson, 2009).