A pair of Chinese grisaille and gilt royal portrait plates (Frederick V & Louise of Denmark-Norway). Qianlong period

The two circular plates have rounded cavettos and wide rims, decorated in grisaille and heightened in blue enamel and gold. In the centre of the first plate is a circular medallion depicting the three-quarter length portrait of a royal figure. On one plate, Queen Louise of Denmark-Norway is shown dressed with an ermine collar over a robe embroidered with crowns and wearing elaborate jewellery and a great curling lace ruff collar. The other plate depicts King Frederick V of Denmark-Norway wearing his royal coronation robes with multiple necklaces filled with intercalated elephants, crosses, crowns, and crown motifs over an ermine collar and a robe embossed with crowns. Each plate is decorated with a gilt spearhead border on its cavetto, and around the rim, a border with four cartouches is filled with a trellis pattern flanked by perched birds, intercalating with wreaths and two further strapwork panels decorated with two cupids riding a dolphin.

COUNTRY : China
PERIOD : Qianlong (1735-1795), circa 1750
MATERIAL : Porcelaine
SIZE : 23 cm
REFERENCE : E732
STATUT : sold
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Related works :

Luisa Vinhais & Jorge Welsh published four plates (three plates with the Queen Louise and one plates with the King Frederick V), in Through Distant Eyes: Portraiture in Chinese Export Art, october 2018, pp. 108/112. (some of them from the collections mentioned previously).

Pair of plates representing the two figures can be found in the Peabody Essex Museum and published by W. R. Sargent in Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics: From the Peabody Essex Museum, 2012, p. 324, no. 172 ; and in the Kunstindustrimuseet (Copenhague). A plate with the King is in the States Museum for Kunst (Copenhague).

Two pair of plates were also in the Mottahedeh Collection and in the Hervouët Collection, published by Hervouët & Bruneau in La Porcelaine de la Compagnie des Indes, nos. 9.101 and 9.102, the Queen Louise plate formerly in the collection of H. Danielsen, Copenhagen).

A pair of plates was in the Sowell Collection. The plate with Queen Louise came from The Espirito Santo Collection and was published by M. Beurdeley in Porcelaine de la Compagnie des Indes, 1969, p. 133.

Another plate was in the collection of Khalil Rizk Collection.

Additonal informations :

Louise of Denmark-Norway was the daughter of King George II of England. She married Frederick V at Christiansborg on December 11, 1743, and they became king and queen of Denmark and Norway in 1746. These portraits representing King Frederick V and his wife, were taken from engravings by Johann Martin Preissler, which in turn were after paintings by Carl Gustave Pilo (1712-1792), a historical artist who painted most of the royal families of northern Europe. Both engravings by Preissier are illustrated in a 1749 book by the clergyman and bishop Peder Herself (1689-1757). The engravings in this book may have been used as a source for the Chinese painter, who probably produced these pieces before Frederick’s marriage to his second wife in 1752.

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