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Fig. 3.1.3.7 Allegory of Fire
Oil on canvas, 117cm x 154cm
Adriaen van Utrecht (1599–1652),
signed and dated 1636
Museés Royaux des Beaus-Arts de Belgique,
Brussels (inv. no. 4731)

281 APMZ, leg. 122-15, Relación de las cosas que por seventeenth century it was mostly of the Kraak type. Some pieces were similar to those
mandato de la Sra. marquesa entrega Agustín
Cuellar, sastre y guardarropa de dicha marquesa, recovered from the shipwreck San Diego (1600). Besides being painted, the porcelain is
a Antonio de Oriola para mandarlo a Flandes.
Jadraque, 10 de junio de 1535, folio 4v. Cited in described as having been engraved (labrada), perhaps porcelain with monochrome glaze
Canepa, 2014/1, p. 33. with moulded or incised (anhua) decoration, or having had gold decoration, which
282 Mencía stayed at Jadraque from August 1533
until July 1535, when she returned again to Breda. may have referred to the Kinrande type. An inventory of Breda Castle, taken in 1619,
Mentioned in Canepa, 2014/1, p. 33.
283 APMZ, leg. 122–8, Minutas y apuntes para formar los provides the earliest known textual reference of the term clapmutsen (klapmutsen), used
asientos e inventarios de las alhajas, ropas, muebles, to refer to bowls usually made of Kraak porcelain, a type that was imported by both
etc., de la Exma. Sra. Duquesa de Calabria, Marquesa
de Zenete. 1552–1553, folio 1–123. Mentioned in the Portuguese and Spanish.
Canepa, 2014/1, p. 33.
284 See, for example, a Jiajing bowl with monochrome Porcelain, however, was still rarely available for sale in Antwerp in the early 1550s.
green overglaze enamel and Kinrande decoration It is recorded that only a single chest of porcelain was imported from Portugal in
with silver-gilt mounts in the British Museum,
published in Harrison-Hall, 2001, pp. 245–246, no. 1552–1553. Probate inventories of ten male and female Antwerp residents of different
9:66. Ewers with monochrome iron-red or blue
overglaze enamel and Kinrande decoration were socio-economic groups, taken between 1574 and 1593, have shown that eight of these
also made during the Jiajing reign. residents of the upper to middle class owned up to three pieces of porcelain. The
285 William I of Orange inherited the estates of his
cousin René of Chalon-Orange (b. 1519–1544), the other two residents of the highest social group owned over ten pieces. Inventories
son of Henry III of Nassau-Breda and his second wife
Claudia of Chalon, Princess of Orange (1498–1521), of the early seventeenth century also list porcelain, and by 1630, a large proportion
after René died in the battle of St. Dizier. René of of households belonging to six different socio-economic groups owned at least 8
Chalon-Orange was the first Nassau to be Prince
of Orange. Mentioned in Canepa, 2014/1, p. 33 and pieces. Visual sources attest to the presence of Jingdezhen blue-and-white porcelain in
p. 253, note 112.
286 William inherited vast estates in what is today The Antwerp. Most of them appear to be Kraak porcelain of both open and closed forms,
Netherlands and Belgium when he was 11-years-old. dating to the Wanli/Tianqi reign. This suggests that porcelain was still valued more
Mentioned in Canepa, 2014/1, p. 33.
287 The relations of the Habsburgs and the Nassaus, as an imported curiosity than for its practical function, thus worth being depicted in
who had collaborated during the reign of Emperor
Charles V, became hostile when William I of Orange paintings alongside luxury goods or being exhibited alongside, paintings, sculptures
became the leader of the Dutch revolts, ultimately and books in the art galleries of wealthy merchants of Antwerp to be both studied and
transforming part of the Southern Netherlands into
Fig. 3.1.3.6a Appelles Painting Campaspe The Dutch Republic of the United Netherlands, admired by visitors as well as by the owner himself. Not surprisingly, wealthy members
Oil on panel, 104.9cm x 148.7cm referred throughout this doctoral thesis as the of the Portuguese community owned considerably larger quantities of porcelain. This
Dutch Republic. Mentioned in Ibid., p. 33 and p. 254,
Willem van Haecht (1593–1637), c.1630 note 113.
Mauritshuis Museum, The Hague (inv. no. 266) 288 S.W.A. Drossaers and Th. H. Scheurleer, Inventarissen is particularly the case of those like the merchant-banker Emmanuel Ximenes who
van de inboedels in de verblijven van de Oranjes en formed part of a powerful network of Portuguese New Christian family businesses
Fig. 3.1.3.6b Appelles Painting Campaspe daarmede gelijk te stellen stukken 1567–1795, vol. with close ties to the Habsburg courts in Brussels and Madrid.
(detail) I, The Hague, 1974, p. 17. I am greatly indebted to

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