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拍品专文
The iconographic scheme of the design upon this dish possesses a clear didactic theme. The figure of Temperance, identified by her attributes of a cup and ewer, centers the composition in sovereignty over the other allegorical figures shown encircling her. She is surrounded immediately by the Four Elements—Water, Earth, Fire and Air—governing them to ensure their efficacy. The outer circle of cartouches enclose seven figures emblematic of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the final panel includes Minerva, goddess of wisdom. The arrangement implies that Temperance is essential for those who seek to master the arts and sciences. The ewer that accompanies this dish is decorated with the three theological virtues Faith, Hope and Charity, see lot XXX in the present sale.
The model for this dish is a pewter ewer-basin by François Briot (1550-c. 1616). Briot was a Huguenot who settled in Montbéliard in 1579, where he worked for the House of Württemberg. His so-called Temperantia dish was probably originally made for Duke François I of Württemberg.
The incised mark 'F' (or 'S') is described in the catalogue of the Exhibition of 1865, to which it was loaned by Baron Alphonse de Rothschild. The same 'F' is mentioned on a Plat de la Tempérance, sold in the Prince Pierre Soltykoff collection; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Me Pillet, 8 April-1 May 1861, lot 539. It is possible that the Soltykoff dish is the same as the present example, though another Temperantia dish in the collection of Baron Achille Sellière sold in 1890 is also described with a similar mark (Collection de Feu Mr le Baron Achille Seillière, provenant du château de Mello, sale Paris, Me Paul Chevalier, 5 May-10 May 1890, lot 93).
Other ceramic dishes of the same model are preserved in the Metropolitan Museum in New York (acc. no. 04.9.20), the Wallace Collection in London (C176) and the Musée du Louvre (MR 3528). The latter dish was seized by Napoleon's armies in 1806 from the Brunswick Museum. See F. Barbe, F. Coulon, J. Denis-Dupuis, 'Le collectionnisme des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Les céramiques post-palisséennes de provenance ancienne dans les collections françaises', Technè, 47, 2019, pp. 128-143. Another example of this model was sold at Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume II: Kunstkammer, Sotheby’s, Paris, 12 October 2022, lot 195.
The model for this dish is a pewter ewer-basin by François Briot (1550-c. 1616). Briot was a Huguenot who settled in Montbéliard in 1579, where he worked for the House of Württemberg. His so-called Temperantia dish was probably originally made for Duke François I of Württemberg.
The incised mark 'F' (or 'S') is described in the catalogue of the Exhibition of 1865, to which it was loaned by Baron Alphonse de Rothschild. The same 'F' is mentioned on a Plat de la Tempérance, sold in the Prince Pierre Soltykoff collection; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Me Pillet, 8 April-1 May 1861, lot 539. It is possible that the Soltykoff dish is the same as the present example, though another Temperantia dish in the collection of Baron Achille Sellière sold in 1890 is also described with a similar mark (Collection de Feu Mr le Baron Achille Seillière, provenant du château de Mello, sale Paris, Me Paul Chevalier, 5 May-10 May 1890, lot 93).
Other ceramic dishes of the same model are preserved in the Metropolitan Museum in New York (acc. no. 04.9.20), the Wallace Collection in London (C176) and the Musée du Louvre (MR 3528). The latter dish was seized by Napoleon's armies in 1806 from the Brunswick Museum. See F. Barbe, F. Coulon, J. Denis-Dupuis, 'Le collectionnisme des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Les céramiques post-palisséennes de provenance ancienne dans les collections françaises', Technè, 47, 2019, pp. 128-143. Another example of this model was sold at Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume II: Kunstkammer, Sotheby’s, Paris, 12 October 2022, lot 195.