Aronson Antiquairs

Polychrome and gilded chinoiserie charger

Delft, circa 1680-1685
Beschrijving

Painted with a Chinese dignitary wearing a blue, gold and iron-red robe, seated on a manganese and green throne before a beaker vase of flowering prunus, a large jar and a censer, with a dragonsnake at his feet, and giving an audience to two warriors, one holding a sword, the other a scabbard and a tall fan, all within a border of chrysanthemum blossoms, foliate scrolls and flames interrupted by four ruyi heads issuing peony sprigs on either side of narrow panels decorated with grotesque masks flanked by further ruyi-heads and alternating with four blue- and gilt-edged lappets centering various arrangements of small tables, vases, jars and othervessels, the slightly scalloped and barbed edge encircled by a gilt line, and the underside of the rim painted in blue with branches of peaches or flowering prunus within four ruyi-shaped lappets alternating with smaller branches of peonies within lines encircling the rim edge and footrim.

Plateelbakkerij
Het Moriaenshooft
Productieplaats
Delft
Merk
Marked IW for Jacob Wemmersz. Hoppesteyn, the owner of Het Moriaenshooft (The Moor’s Head) from 1664 until 1671, succeeded by his widow Jannetge Claesdr. van Straten through 1686
Datering
circa 1680-1685
Materiaal/techniek
tin-glazed earthenware
Afmetingen
Diameter: 39 cm. (15.4 in.)
Collection
inventarisnummer
D8813