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Object 2011326

Cream dish

China

1730-1750

Height 29 mm (1.14 inch), diameter of rim 162 mm (6.38 inch), diameter of footring 89 mm (3.50 inch)

Cream dish on footring with a flat underglaze brown-edged rim (jia mangkou). Decorated in various overglaze famille rose enamels with a flowering chrysanthemum plant in a single concentric band. On the rim a trellis pattern border with four reserves filled with flowering lotus plants. On the reverse three mushrooms (lingzhi) in iron-red. To the base an old paper label that reads: Stichting (Foundation), Geldersche Kasteelen (Geldersche Castles), Coll. Mw. Scheltema-Schönfeld (Collection Mrs. Scheltema-Schönfeld), schenking 1989 (donation 1989), lijst nr. (list no.), inv. nr GK II-4 (inventory no. GK II-4)

Apparently this cream dish was donated by Mrs. Scheltema-Schönfeld in 1989 to the Foundation Geldersche Kasteelen.

Mrs. Dr. H.J.H. Scheltema-Schönfeld, born September 11, 1891, was a dentist during the Second World War in the Dutch city Leiden. On May 10, 1940, Mrs. Scheltema provided shelter for a Jewish family, soon others followed. In total she gave shelter to 21 people at the same time. From her house all kinds of illegal activity (print / transmitting) was taken place against the occupying forces of nazi Germany. She herself took part in various illegal activities like transferring children from inner city Amsterdam to the countryside. She also visited the Dutch transfer concentration camp Westerbork with a suitcase filled with goods and letters. For these activities Mrs. Scheltema was arrested in May 1944. From February 15 to May 7, 1945 she was detained in Scheveningen prison also referred to as the "Oranje Hotel" (Orange Hotel) a German prison for Dutchmen who, in any way against the Germans opposing, were imprisoned for questioning and trail. For most prisoners the stay was not long lasting and followed by either release or further detention, often in Germany, or execution on the Waalsdorpervlakte. The liberation of Europe was begun but it took almost a year before the residents / prisoners of the "Oranje Hotel" (Orange Hotel) were released. On May 8, 1945, the first prisoners, under who, Mrs. Scheltema came out. Mrs. H.J.H. Scheltema-Schönfeld died in 1991. (www.rjhbrink.eu)

Jacquemart & Le Blant writing in French in 1861 christened the opaque enamels "famille rose" or "the rose family". These colours had been introduced to China on enamelled ware about 1710 by Jesuit enamellers who had experience at Limoges. Until that time underglaze blue, Imari and "famille verte" (Jacquemart & Le Blant so christened the translucent enamels) were almost the only palettes of export porcelain known in Europe. (Howard 1994, p.57)

Condition: Perfect.

References:

Jacquemart & Le Blant 1862, pp. 77-105

Howard 1994, cat. 30

Jörg 2003/2, cat. 8

Sargent 2012, p.183

On 12 May 2013, Object 2011326 was sold for € 499 to an honourable Australian gentleman.

The sale proceeds for this object were donated to the Anne Frank Stichting (Anne Frank Foundation). The Anne Frank House welcomes around a million visitors every year, and thousands of children all over the world learn about the Second World War, the Holocaust and the story of Anne Frank through teaching materials or travelling exhibition. (source: www.annefrank.org)