A CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE ‘STANISLAW PATTERN’ PLATE, Kangxi (1662-1722)
Diameter: 22cms, 12.5inches
BH51
BH51
Of circular form, decorated in bright famille verte Imari enamels and underglaze blue, painted to the centre with abundant chrysanthemum and peony booms issuing from a vase in a terraced...
Of circular form, decorated in bright famille verte Imari enamels and underglaze blue, painted to the centre with abundant chrysanthemum and peony booms issuing from a vase in a terraced garden, the cavetto with a blue-ground border inset with six cartouches, alternately enclosing chrysanthemums and butterflies, the broad rim painted with three panels of irregular form, one enclosing a pair of songbirds, one with a single bird beside a large peony bloom, each with a narrow noir enamel border at the rim, all reserved against an overglaze blue ground, further decorated with gilt and iron-red chrysanthemums, the reverse with three sprays of flowering branches, the rim with cartouches of butterflies and fish reserved on a diamond pattern ground, the base glazed.
Literature
This Chinese design Inspired by 17th century Japanese export Imari wares, was made for the European market, where it became popular in the mid-18th century. It can be characterised by its vibrant use of enamels associated with the Japanese Imari palate.Services of this design can be found in a number of royal collections, such as Augustus the Strong's collection at the Zwinger museum in Dresden, see below.
The design is known as the 'Stanislaw' pattern because the Polish King Stanislaw II gifted a service of this design manufactured in the Belvedere Manufactory (Warsaw, Poland) in 1776, to the Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid I. This service, known at the 'Poniatowski' service, features Arabic inscriptions around the cavetto. There is a dish from this service in the Metropolitan Museum, New York.
In 1770 it was copied by the Venetian Cozzi workshop, and in the 19th century is was copied by Samson, and Bayeux (Metropolitan Museum, access number 1995.268.39)
For comparable examples see:
The Dresden Porcelain Collection, the Zwinger, Dresden, Augustus the Strong inventory number PO 5700. Illustrated in: Walter Bondy, Kangsi-Epoch Der Chinesesischen Porzellankunst, Munich, 1923, no. 157.
The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, accession number C.1474-1910.
The Collezione Scalabrino, illustrated in: Francesco Morena i "La collezione Scalabrino, porcellanae orientale e mailloche europee" p. 44, no. 54.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, object number 1995.268.35, the Hans Syz Collection, Gift of Stephan B. Syz and John D. Syz, 1995.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, object number 50.211.277, made in the Belvedere Manufactory (Warsaw, Poland, ca. 1770-1780s).
A plate from the collection of August the Strong, in the Boymans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, inv. no. A 2417.
The Mottahedeh Collection, 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, pp. 144-145, no. 126.
