Object Number 2003.0047.019

Object Name

Plate (Dinner plate)

Category

Ceramics

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Leo A. and Doris C. Hodroff

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; White, rectangular paper label with "REDUS + REF 5047 / PETRUS SCHENK- / ILLUST IN HOLLSTEIN / ETCHINGS- VOLXXV / RIJKSMUSEUM / HERVOUET + BRUNES" handwritten in black and red ink
2. Label; Underside; White, rectangular paper label with "PR. PLATES - 9" DIA / "PETRUS DE WOLFF / GENTLEMAN + DOG / HOUSE- FOLIAGE / CIRCA 1740 5047" handwritten in black and red ink
3. Label; Underside; Green and white, circular paper label with "Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection / 5047" in black ink
4. Label; Underside; White, circular paper label with "CG / 782 / 7" handwritten in blue ink
5. Inscription; Upper surface, bottom edge of reserve; Painted in black enamel Roman letters "PETRUS DE WOLFF PETR. FIL"

Subjects

Monarchs and nobility

Materials

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

Techniques

Molded, Enameled, Painted, Gilded

Dimensions (inches)

1.083 (H) , 9.124 (Diam)

Dimensions (centimeters)

2.75 (H) , 23.175 (Diam)

Object Description

Web - 02/19/2013

The design source for the portrait on this hand-painted plate 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).

A plate from the same service as the example shown here is in the collection of Historic Deerfield.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Sargent, William R. 2012 Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics at the Peabody Essex Museum.
• Plate, probably from the same service: pp. 336-37, no. 179, discussing William Wissing's 1686 portrait of the future Lord Burghley, engraved by Pieter Schenk after mezzotint by John Smith of London.
[Book] Lange, Amanda E. 2005 Chinese Export Art at Historic Deerfield.
• Plate probably from same service, 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.
[Catalogue] 2007 Christie's (sales catalogue).
• Plate from same service: January 26, 2010 (NY), Benjamin F. Edwards III sale, lot 41