Lot 202
PAIR OF RARE BLUE AND WHITE DUTCH DECORATED CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'HUNTING' DISHES
QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG OR QIANLONG PERIOD, C. 1730-45
Auction: 13 March 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
清雍正或乾隆 約1730-45 外銷瓷青花暗刻加荷蘭彩繪狩獵紋盤（共兩件）
each dish carved with floral motifs under the glaze, with two bands of blue underglaze concentric circles dividing the Dutch hunting scenes over the glaze, the exterior adorned with three carved floral patterns under glaze (2)
Dimensions
22cm diameter each
Footnote
The design is taken from a set of nine prints by Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630) that were published through the publisher C.J. Visscher in Amsterdam in 1631 under the title Animalium Quadrupedum Venatus in Usum Pictorum. Antonio Tempesta (1555 – 5 August 1630) was an Italian painter and engraver, a point of connection between Baroque Rome and the culture of Antwerp. He was born and trained in Florence and painted in a variety of styles, influenced to some degree by "Contra-Maniera" or Counter-Mannerism. He enrolled in the Florentine Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in 1576, and was a pupil of Santi di Tito, then of the Flemish painter Joannes Stradanus. He is now best known as a printmaker in etching and engraving. Among his followers was Marzio di Colantonio.
He was part of the large set of artists working under Giorgio Vasari on the interior decoration of the Palazzo Vecchio.
His favourite subjects were battles, cavalcades, and processions. He relocated to Rome, where he associated with artists from the Netherlands, which may have led to his facility with landscape painting.
For a pair of dishes of this design and the same shape with same Chinese decoration see: The Watney Collection of Chinese Porcelain Decorated in Holland and England, Bonham's London, 7th November 2003, page 27, lot 39.