Dutch plate commemorating the death of Queen Emma

Bonsel, G.A.

dc.contributor.author	Bonsel, G.A.
dc.contributor.other	Van Gybland Oosterhoff, H.H.A.
dc.date.accessioned	2016-07-07T08:17:30Z
dc.date.available	2016-07-07T08:17:30Z
dc.date.created	1934
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.description	This round tin-glazed white plate with a black enamel covering is decorated with a central panel of a crown, two shields, lilies, palm branches, acorns with dates and an inscription on the cavetto. Above a border of yellow stripes, between two stylized leaf panels there is the inscription “IN MEMORIAM – H.M. DE KONINGIN – MOEDER” on a light blue background on the cavetto. In the centre of this plate a crown and two shields are placed on stylized white lilies and palm branches on which there is a ribbon with the inscription “ JE MAINTIENDRAI – PALMA SUB PONDERE CRESCIT” below which are acorns with the dates “1858, 1879, 1890, 1898 and 1934”. The two shields on this plate are the shield of King Willem III on the left and the shield of Queen Emma on the right. The back of the plate is black with a sunken light blue base marked with the inscription “REGINA, W.B. GOUDA, HOLLAND, ONTW. G.A. BONSEL, No 85” and a crown in underglaze blue. Queen Emma, the second wife of King Willem III of the Netherlands was born on 2 August 1858; she married him in 1879 to become Queen of the Netherlands; King Willem III in 1890 and Queen Emma became Regent for eight years until her daughter Wilhelmina came of age in 1898. The Latin phrases on the ribbon are the phrase of Willem III “We will maintain” and the phrase of Emma “Palm trees grow under pressure”. This plate was deigned by G.A. Bonsel and made by the Kunstaadewerkfabriek Regina in Gouda in 1934.	en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorship	Ceramic 101	en_ZA
dc.format.extent	45 mm x 315 mm	en_ZA
dc.format.medium	Tin-glazed earthenware of Kunstaardewerkfabriek Regina	en_ZA
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/54139
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	D707692	en_ZA
dc.rights	Copyright of the electronic version, University of Pretoria.	en_ZA
dc.subject	Plate	en_ZA
dc.title	Dutch plate commemorating the death of Queen Emma	en_ZA
dc.type	Image	en_ZA