Object Number 1956.0046.084

Object Name

Saucer

Category

Ceramics

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Charles K. Davis

Creator (Role)

William Wissing (Design inspiration)
c.1656-1687

Pieter Schenck (Possible design inspiration)
1660-1719

John Smith (Possible design inspiration)
1652/54-1742
Pupil of Isaac Beckett. Smith acquired both Beckett's business and inventory of plates around 1688. Smith's plates were sold at his death to John Boydell.

Place of Origin

Jingdezhen, China, Asia

Date

1735-1745

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Label; Underside, outside of footrim; Off-white, octagonal paper label with a floral border, "[typed] W/ MARTIN/ ~HURST/ COLLECTION/ [handwritten] 698" all in black ink.

Subjects

Monarchs and nobility

Materials

Porcelain (hard-paste); Lime (alkaline) glaze

Techniques

Molded, Enameled, Painted, Gilded

Dimensions (inches)

0.81 (H) , 4.606 (Diam)

Dimensions (centimeters)

2.05 (H) , 11.7 (Diam)

Object Description

Web - 02/19/2013

The design source for the portrait on this hand-painted saucer must have been a print after William Wissing's 1686 portrait of John Cecil, Lord Burghley (1674-1721). William Wissing (b. 1656) was born in Amsterdam and immigrated to England in 1676, eventually to become an assistant of the famous Sir Peter Lely (d. 1680). One engraving after the painting was created by Amsterdam's Pieter Schenck (1660-1718/19) and was titled "Petrus de Wolfe." The portrait of Burghley also was engraved in England in 1686 by John Smith (1652-1743).

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Palmer, Arlene. 1976 A Winterthur Guide to Chinese Export Porcelain.
• Published: p. 82
[Book] Hervouet, Francois, et al. 1986 La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes a Decor Occidental.
• Published: p. 179, no. 7.110
[Book] Lange, Amanda E. 2005 Chinese Export Art at Historic Deerfield.
• Same scene in grisaille on differently bordered plate, with design source: pp. 197-198, no. 72 & fig. 69, plate inscribed "PETRUS DE WOLFE PETR FIL." C. 1740. William Wissing painting (portrait) of John Cecil, Lord Burghley, as source for print.
[Book] Fuchs, Ronald W. & Howard, David Sanctuary. 2005 Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur. 208 p.
• Grisaille discussed: p. 56, no. 19
[Catalogue] 2007 Christie's (sales catalogue).
• Plate after same design source (matching 2003.0047.019): January 26, 2010 (NY), Benjamin F. Edwards III sale, lot 41
[Thesis] York, Sarah. 2015 Outre' Aesthetics. Ph.D. University of Waterloo English
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