English plate to commemorate the wedding of Willem V of the House of Orange

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dc.contributor.other Van Gybland Oosterhoff, H.H.A.
dc.date.accessioned 2016-07-07T06:54:09Z
dc.date.available 2016-07-07T06:54:09Z
dc.date.created 1784
dc.date.issued 2010
dc.description This round cream-ware plate with a foliated rim decorated with a cord and orange fruit border pattern has two portraits from the side of Willem V and his Queen surrounded by a leaf scroll and a burning candle between them. Below the Queen are the letters FSW and below Willem the letters PVOR. Above the figures is the inscription: “ik brand Ligt / Voor de Pruis Zijn Nigt / En ook voor de Oranje Spruit / Die Het Niet wil Zien / die blaast Het Uit” (I burn a candle / for the the Prussian Girl / as well as the Child of the House of Orange / those who doesn’t like it must try to stop it). This is one of the oldest plates in the Van Gybland Oosterhoff Ceramic Collection dating to 1784 and it was made by a ceramic factory in England. en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorship Ceramic 101 en_ZA
dc.format.extent 27 mm x 225 mm en_ZA
dc.format.medium Cream-ware en_ZA
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/54003
dc.publisher Department of the University of Pretoria Art en_ZA
dc.relation.ispartofseries UP-Art : paintings, drawings and sculptures en_ZA
dc.relation.ispartofseries D701389 en_ZA
dc.rights Copyright of the electronic version, University of Pretoria. en_ZA
dc.subject cream-ware plate en_ZA
dc.title English plate to commemorate the wedding of Willem V of the House of Orange en_ZA
dc.type Image en_ZA


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