Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1736 (circa)
Materials:porcelain, gold,
Technique:gilded, painted,
Subjects:marriage/wedding heraldry
Dimensions:Diameter: 22.70 centimetres
Description:
‘Grisaille’-and-gold painted plate with a symbolic wedding scene and Dutch coats of arms. The plate shows a bride and groom in a domed columned interior beside an altar with two perched loving doves, led by a figure with a burning torch, and accompanied on the right by mythological figures among clouds, one of them crowning the groom with a wreath, another offering a heart, and a winged cherub holding a finger to his mouth, and musicians on the left. In the foreground mermaids and merman are emerging from among rushes, some blowing horns. The arched entrance is superscribed with the Latin vow ‘SEMPER AMOR PRO TE FIRMISSIMUS ATQUE FIDELIS’ (“my love for you will always be steadfast and true”). The pillars on either side are supporting two coats of arms, the left-hand one bearing the misspelled Latin motto ‘NULLUS VOLAT ATTIUS ALES’ (“no winged Attius flies”). Behind the pillars is a figure holding a mirror on the left and one with a fruit basket and wheat sheaves on the right.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall and Krahl 1994:The picture is a symbolic wedding scene, full of emblems of love and marriage. In the clouds above the altar, holding a heart, is Juno, the mother goddess and wife of the highest Roman god, Jupiter, accompanied by a peacock. Crowning the groom is Venus, the Roman goddess of love, and the cherub represents Cupid, her male counterpart. The mirror represents truth and the fruit fertility. The print from which this design was copied has not yet been traced. The arms belong to Johan van Gergen van der Gijp and Elisabeth Arnaudina van Beaumont Cornells, who were married on 18th November 1736. Another plate with these arms is in the Musees Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels, Belgium (Jorg, 1989, no. 78). Plates with this marriage scene exist in different sizes, with different rim borders and bearing the coats of arms of different couples. All known plates with his design were made for the Dutch market and bear Dutch arms (ibid., p. 204). Similar plates with different arms are in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Lunsingh Scheurleer, 1974, no. 284); and in the Mottahedeh collection (Howard and Ayers, 1978, vol. II, no. 391); and a large serving plate is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Clunas, 1987, pl. 49).
Materials:porcelain, gold,
Technique:gilded, painted,
Subjects:marriage/wedding heraldry
Dimensions:Diameter: 22.70 centimetres
Description:
‘Grisaille’-and-gold painted plate with a symbolic wedding scene and Dutch coats of arms. The plate shows a bride and groom in a domed columned interior beside an altar with two perched loving doves, led by a figure with a burning torch, and accompanied on the right by mythological figures among clouds, one of them crowning the groom with a wreath, another offering a heart, and a winged cherub holding a finger to his mouth, and musicians on the left. In the foreground mermaids and merman are emerging from among rushes, some blowing horns. The arched entrance is superscribed with the Latin vow ‘SEMPER AMOR PRO TE FIRMISSIMUS ATQUE FIDELIS’ (“my love for you will always be steadfast and true”). The pillars on either side are supporting two coats of arms, the left-hand one bearing the misspelled Latin motto ‘NULLUS VOLAT ATTIUS ALES’ (“no winged Attius flies”). Behind the pillars is a figure holding a mirror on the left and one with a fruit basket and wheat sheaves on the right.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall and Krahl 1994:The picture is a symbolic wedding scene, full of emblems of love and marriage. In the clouds above the altar, holding a heart, is Juno, the mother goddess and wife of the highest Roman god, Jupiter, accompanied by a peacock. Crowning the groom is Venus, the Roman goddess of love, and the cherub represents Cupid, her male counterpart. The mirror represents truth and the fruit fertility. The print from which this design was copied has not yet been traced. The arms belong to Johan van Gergen van der Gijp and Elisabeth Arnaudina van Beaumont Cornells, who were married on 18th November 1736. Another plate with these arms is in the Musees Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels, Belgium (Jorg, 1989, no. 78). Plates with this marriage scene exist in different sizes, with different rim borders and bearing the coats of arms of different couples. All known plates with his design were made for the Dutch market and bear Dutch arms (ibid., p. 204). Similar plates with different arms are in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Lunsingh Scheurleer, 1974, no. 284); and in the Mottahedeh collection (Howard and Ayers, 1978, vol. II, no. 391); and a large serving plate is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Clunas, 1987, pl. 49).
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