A large famille verte “Stanislaw pattern” charger. China, Kangxi

Decorated in underglaze blue and famille verte enamels. The centre with an exuberant flower vase on a terrace with double fences on each side, surrounded by a border in blue with six reserved cartouches filled with butterflies and chrysanthemums. The sides and rim with three irregularly shaped fields filled with flowering plants at a rock, butterflies and birds, reserved on a blue ground with chrysanthemums and flower sprays. The reverse with two wide-spreading flower sprays. Round the rim a band with six narrow cartouches filled with a butterfly or shrimp on a diaper ground.

COUNTRY : China
PERIOD : Kangxi (1662-1722), ca. 1710-1730
MATERIAL : Porcelain
SIZE : 39 cm
REFERENCE : E610
STATUT : sold
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This pattern can be found in the European princely collections, including August The Strong (1670-1733), King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, housed in the Zwinger, Dresden (different sizes, inventory number PO 5700 for the larger ). One is illustrated in “Porzellane und Waffen aus den Kgl. Sächsischen Sammlungen Dresden” lot 289 (1919).

A smaller dish (28 cm), from the Mottahedeh Collection, is published by David Howard and John Ayers in “China for the West. Chinese Porcelain and other Decorative Arts for Export illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection (I, pp. 144-145, no. 126).

A smaller dish (34.4 cm), from the collection of August the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, is in the collection of the Boymans Van Beuningen Museum (Rotterdam, inv. no. A 2417).

A smaller dish (30.5 cm) is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New-York (from the Hans Syz Collection, Gift of Stephan B. Syz and John D. Syz, 1995, access number 1995.268.35).

A smaller dish (34 cm) is in the Collezione Scalabrino and illustrated by Francesco Morena in “La collezione Scalabrino, porcellanae orientale e mailloche europee” (p. 44, no. 54).

A larger example (54 cm), is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum of London (accession number C.1474-1910).

One example, of a similar dimension (54 cm), from the Dresden Porcelain Collection, was published by Walter Bondy (Kangsi-Epoch Der Chinesesischen Porzellankunst, Munich, 1923, no. 157)

 

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Metropolitan Museum of New-York (access number 1995.268.35)

Additonal informations :

This design made for the Continental market was inspired by Japanese export ceramics from the 17th century (Imari Kinrandé). The extensive use of gilding and the dark blue and red enamels illustrate the adoption of the Japanese Imari style in Chinese wares. This style became popular in Europe in the mid-seventeenth century, when warfare in China disrupted the kilns at Jingdezhen. Chinese potters incorporated the Imari style in their repertory to attract the lucrative European market.

This famous design was copied in Belvedere Warsaw Faience in 1776, most notably in later services for the Polish King Stanislaw II or for Sultan Abdul Hamid I of Turkey, which has consequently resulted in this design being known as the “Stanislaw” pattern. A plate from the “Poniatowski service” is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New-York.

This historical pattern became famous and the Venetian Cozzi factory copied it around 1770. Bayeux (Metropolitan Museum of NYC, access number 1995.268.39) and Samson copied it as well at the end of the 19th century.

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