CIRCA 1787

细节

AN ENGLISH CREAMWARE DUTCH-DECORATED STADHOLDER PORTRAIT DISH
CIRCA 1787
Painted and gilt in a bright palette with an equestrian portrait of Prince Willem V of Orange-Nassau, sword drawn, on a stallion with sabino markings, the border painted with winged putti among swags of fruit and flowers suspended from rings, and reserved with the inscription De Godsdienst, Eendragt, Liefde en Trouw, Is't Vaste Fundament van ijder Staatsgebouw P^s Willem De Vijfde Van Orange, (Religion, Solidarity, Love and Loyalty/Are the foundations of every state building/Prince William the Fifth of Orange) in a waved brown line rim (minor chipping to rim, re-touched, some light scratches and flaking to enamel)
17¾in. (45 cm.) wide

来源

With Alistair Sampson Antiques, London.

出版

Robert Hirsch, 'Dutch Decorated English Creamware', English Ceramic Circle Transactions (1986), Vol. 12, Pt. 3, pl. 178b.

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

拍品专文

For a related Dutch-decorated saltglaze white stoneware dish painted by the same hand as the present example with a posthumous portrait of Fredrik Willem, King of Prussia see Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq. M.P. and The Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber and presented to the Museum in 1884, Catalogue, Vol. II, Earthenware, (London, 1930), p. 42, cat. no. 226, pl. 24.