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Design for a Silver Dish, the Rim Decorated with Cupids, a Nude Woman and Two Satyrs
Salomon de Bray, 1647
Ontwerp voor een zilveren schaal, waarvan de rand gedecoreerd is met een doorlopende voorstelling van putti die zich bezighouden met de wijnbouw.
- Artwork typedrawing, design
- Object numberRP-T-1982-7
- Dimensionsdiameter 312 mm
- Physical characteristicspen and brown ink, with grey wash, over black chalk and incised compass circle
Identification
Title(s)
Design for a Silver Dish, the Rim Decorated with Cupids, a Nude Woman and Two Satyrs
Object type
Object number
RP-T-1982-7
Description
Ontwerp voor een zilveren schaal, waarvan de rand gedecoreerd is met een doorlopende voorstelling van putti die zich bezighouden met de wijnbouw.
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Creation
Creation
draughtsman: Salomon de Bray
Dating
1647
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Material and technique
Physical description
pen and brown ink, with grey wash, over black chalk and incised compass circle
Dimensions
diameter 312 mm
Acquisition and rights
Acquisition
purchase 1982
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Provenance
…; Miss Howard Mercer (?-?), Sandhurst, Berkshire/Shalford, Surrey;{Was involved in ‘art of drawing’, according to the catalogue for the sale, London (Sotheby’s), 23 March 1972, no. 3.} sale [section Miss Howard Mercer], London (Sotheby’s), 23 March 1972, no. 3; …; C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, 1972; Jan Gerrit van Gelder (1903-80), The Hague and Utrecht; from the dealer Saam Nijstad (1922-2011), The Hague, fl. 10.000, 1982
Remarks
Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
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Salomon de Bray
Design for a Silver Dish, the Rim Decorated with Cupids, a Nude Woman and Two Satyrs
1647
Inscriptions
signed and dated: upper right (on a dish in the decoration), in brown ink, SDBraÿ (the initials in ligature) · 1647 ·
stamped on verso: with the mark of the (L. 2228)
Technical notes
watermark: foolscap above numeral ‘4’ and three balls, with letters LC below; cf. Laurentius, I, no. 539a (The Hague: 1647)
Provenance
…; Miss Howard Mercer (?-?), Sandhurst, Berkshire/Shalford, Surrey;1Was involved in ‘art of drawing’, according to the catalogue for the sale, London (Sotheby’s), 23 March 1972, no. 3. sale [section Miss Howard Mercer], London (Sotheby’s), 23 March 1972, no. 3; …; C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, 1972; Jan Gerrit van Gelder (1903-80), The Hague and Utrecht; from the dealer Saam Nijstad (1922-2011), The Hague, fl. 10.000, 1982
Object number: RP-T-1982-7
Entry
The flat, round dish with a lobed rim is of a type common in the second half of the seventeenth century.2With thanks to Jan Rudolph de Lorm for information about silver dishes; there is a photograph of a similar dish in Antiek (November 1979) in an advertisement for A.C. Beeling & Zoon, Leeuwarden. The rim of that specimen is decorated with the six stages of the life of man and four vanitas scenes of birds and fruit in garlands. Fruit would have been placed in its undecorated centre. The decoration, however, is unusual. The rims of such dishes were normally adorned with flowers and ornaments rather than with Bacchic figures associated with wine. Such motifs were usually copied from prints, but this is a special design that was never executed. Two other fullsized designs, which De Bray executed in 1630, are for a drinking horn now in the Loffelijk Gilde van St. Hubertus in Haarlem.3J.W. von Moltke, ‘Jan de Bray’, Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 11/12 (1938-39), p. 409, no. Z. 143; E. Taverne, ‘Salomon de Bray’s ontwerp voor de drinkhoorn van Het Loffelijke Gilde van St. Hubert te Haarlem’, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 23 (1972), pp. 261-72, figs. 1 and 2.
Peter Schatborn, 1998
Literature
C.G. Boerner, Neue Lagerliste nr. 60, Düsseldorf 1972, no. 7; ‘Keuze uit de aanwinsten van het Rijksprentenkabinet’, Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 31 (1983), p. 64, fig. 7; M. Schapelhouman and P. Schatborn, Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: Artists Born between 1580 and 1600, 2 vols., coll. cat. Amsterdam 1998, no. 66; https://rkd.nl/explore/images/15016
Citation
P. Schatborn, 1998, 'Salomon de Bray, Design for a Silver Dish, the Rim Decorated with Cupids, a Nude Woman and Two Satyrs, 1647', in J. Turner (ed.), (under construction) Drawings 2, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200120130
(accessed 14 December 2025 19:59:38).Footnotes
- 1Was involved in ‘art of drawing’, according to the catalogue for the sale, London (Sotheby’s), 23 March 1972, no. 3.
- 2With thanks to Jan Rudolph de Lorm for information about silver dishes; there is a photograph of a similar dish in Antiek (November 1979) in an advertisement for A.C. Beeling & Zoon, Leeuwarden. The rim of that specimen is decorated with the six stages of the life of man and four vanitas scenes of birds and fruit in garlands.
- 3J.W. von Moltke, ‘Jan de Bray’, Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 11/12 (1938-39), p. 409, no. Z. 143; E. Taverne, ‘Salomon de Bray’s ontwerp voor de drinkhoorn van Het Loffelijke Gilde van St. Hubert te Haarlem’, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 23 (1972), pp. 261-72, figs. 1 and 2.