Sunday, April 6, 2025

Chinese Export Jewish Armorial Rectangular Platter Hananel Mendes De Costa Portugal Jews

This famous plate it's in a whole bunch of newspapers across the world, it was found by me on a Goodwill cart. Pristine condition.

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My excitement at Goodwill when I found this on their cart it's a Chinese Export Jewish Armorial Rectangular Platter 18th century. What makes this stand out from regular 18th century platters would be that it's Jewish and only rich people ordered these hand-painted dinnerware from China. It's a crest from the most famous Jewish family in England and Portugal during the 17th - 18th century. Purchased by Hananel Mendes De Costa in 1755. They fetch a much bigger dollar because only a few Jewish families were wealthy during the Diaspora of the 17th 18th centuries. Includes Mendes De Costa family initials pristine. Many people not only perceive broken bones in the middle of the crest they also see 6 male phallus. They are meant to be bones unless they had been purposely designed to resemble the male part.

Please read the below link about the history of this Chinese Export Jewish Armorial Rectangular Platter. It's well documented and a Jewish history prize.

2 famed artists are affiliated with this rare dinnerware from 18th century Portugal. Christina Mendes De Costa was a well known miniature portrait artist during the 18th century and also in the 19th century Joseph Mendes Da Costa a well known artist and sculpture both ascended from this famous Portugal Jewish lineage with Christina probably having eating on some of it.

Joseph Mendes Da Costa

Joseph Mendes da Costa (4 November 1863 – 20 July 1939) was a Dutch sculptor and teacher.

Joseph Mendes da Costa
Portrait of Da Costa by Michel de Klerk, 1919
Born	4 November 1863 Amsterdam
Died	20 July 1939 (aged 75)
Nationality	Dutch

Life and work

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Mendes da Costa was born in Amsterdam to the sculptor Moses Mendes da Costa and Esther Teixeira de Mattos, sister of Henri Teixeira de Mattos and aunt of Joseph Teixeira de Mattos. He was taught by his father who kept a stone workshop where he made building details and gravestones. Later, Costa enrolled at the newly founded Quellinusschool where he studied under Bart van Hove. He was a member of the Portuguese-Jewish community in the Netherlands

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https://www.scribd.com/document/810040903/Chinese-Porcelain-Ordered-by-Portuguese-Jews-in-the-Diaspora

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Methodist c

Methodist Camp Meeting is art that never comes up for sale in a lifetime. We searched auction records for the last 45 years and none of these have sold. There are four known of these lithographs in existence only in museums or the Smithsonian with this one in the best condition compared to them. Methodist Camp Meeting Edward W. Clay Lithograph Authentic. This lithograph was drawn and designed on stone by Edward Williams Clay. It was published by H.R. Robinson, 48 & 52 Courtland St., New York. H R Robinson was known as the official printer of the Whig political party and his printings collaborated with Edward William Clay command very high premium. The unframed work is as is. It has a tear through the title that has been taped en verso, signs of mat burn on sides. Image beautiful colorful and in nicer condition than the other 3 known in existence in museums. It measures 11 3/4" x 18 7/8. Methodists religion beban in the later last half of the 18th century with early Methodist art highly collectable. Selling in the low to mid 5 figures. This piece I'm selling here has wonderful astetic imagery and is hand colored masterfully. A beautiful recordered history of early Methodism done by a well known duo of 19th century artistic talent. Edward William Clay and publisher H R Robinson. There is original pencil numbering en verso. 3 other Edward William Clay H R Robinson black and white prints of Andrew Jackson satire sold recently for $5000 -$8125 - $13,750 Heritage Auction Sold on Oct 15, 2022 for: $13,750.00 I turned down half a dozen offers in the last 4 years the highest one was $6,000 so you know where I'm at and that was before the $13,750 sale on heritage on October 15th 2022. Thanks

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Monday, March 25, 2024

Edward William Clay Stone Lithograph "Methodist Camp Meeting" "Andrew Jackson " Print Prices Increase For His Art

Edward William Clay the early to mid 19th century artist and engravers prices have doubled in the last decade. He's known for Philadelphia satirical paintings drawings and prints detailing the poor blacks in the south and he's also known for his political commentary etchings and his Methodist Camp Meeting Rare Stone lithograph where none in the last 50 years have sold. His political commentary prints of Andrew Jackson are also in big demand though there only a few scarce ones left. Just in the last decade they've gone from $5,000 to nearly $14,000 for a single print. Heritage just recently sold one for $13,750.

https://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/atq/d/chicago-methodist-camp-meeting-edward/7714465123.html

Edward William Clay is also known for his drawings and etchings of silhouette figures in the Victorian era but they command $100 to $500 in price for them. What is amazing is the taking off in price of his political Prints.

His recent sale at Heritage Auctions sure is a testament that his prices and his stature surely are growing. But the art of his that are growing in price are very short and supply as they rarely come up to auction so if you have anything by him scour your basements and attics and all you collectors go through your storage lockers because this is one to watch he surely set the explode higher in the future.

His rare I should say extremely rare Methodist Camp Meeting Stone lithograph 1836 none have sold in seventy years so we cannot gauge the price on that but one came up at auction and I contacted the auction house and found out it did not meet the premium price set on it as I do not know what the premium price is but the owner of the auction house said it was 10K Plus and it was a small auction house in Chicago and I found that one on liveauctioneers. Without a doubt we can add Edward William Clay and his handful of rare etchings on Andrew Jackson and Methodist religion as one of the few artists whose works are suddenly skyrocketing. 15 years ago those specific prints probably could have been picked up for as little as $150 but incredibly today we are in the high $14,000 plus. For sure it will be interesting to see where these prices go in the next couple decades and see if this trend holds up as it looks like it will.

By Jimmy Telouse

45 year art collector and addiction specialist.

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Methodist Camp Meeting by Edward Williams Clay and Henry R. Robinson, 1836

Camp meetings were a popular form of Protestant worship throughout the 19th century. Lasting several days, these open-air events often involved ecstatic communal prayer. Hundreds and even thousands came from miles around for preaching and worship, and to enjoy the festival-like atmosphere. In this hand colored print a large crowd in a clearing in the woods. The foreground scene depicts a quiet, peaceful group of men, women, and in this print two boys. A Black couple are depicted in the lower right near the two children. There is a muzzled dog depicted in the lower left. Some sedately sit on benches, while others kneel on the ground in prayer, stroll about in conversation, or stand listening to a minister. The minister with five men standing behind him is preaching from a covered platform on the left side of the print. This platform is a wood box-like structure, open halfway from the men's waists to the roof to form a commanding pulpit. In the background under a copse of tall trees and a jewel toned teal blue sky are several white tents with numbers and letters listed on them, and one lists Brooklyn No. 5, another A.R. No2. These presumably correspond with congregations from various locations.

Description (Brief)

The print was drawn by artist/lithographer Edward Williams Clay and printed and published in 1836 by Henry R. Robinson. Edward Williams Clay (1799-1857) came from a large, well off Philadelphia family. He began working as a political caricaturist in 1828 and was throughout his artistic career an engraver, lithographer, etcher, and portrait painter. Before his career as an artist began in earest Clay was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar, but quickly left to pursue art, first in Philadelphia starting in 1819 and then in in New York City. His step-father, who was a jeweler and silversmith appears to have fostered his artistic nature in design.Clay and Robinson specialized in political caricatures particularly Major Jack Downing,.in theater portraits, and sheet music. By the mid 1830's he was working in New York and partnering frequently with Henry R. Pobinson, who published much of his work through 1838 and then from 1843-1856. He worked with John Childs from 1838-1844. After losing his eyesight, he retired from art and held minor office in Delaware before his death in December of 1857.

Description (Brief)

Henry R. Robinson, was a caricaturist and lithographer in New York City. He was listed as a carver and gilder from 1833-34, as a caricaturist from 1836-43 and as a lithographer and print publisher from 1843-51, though he published Edward Williams Clay's work often from 1834-1856. Henry Robinson was known for political prints that championed the causes of the Whig Party (which later merged with the Republican Party) and satirized the opposing Democratic Party. New York state historian Peter C. Welsh has called Henry Robinson the "Printmaker to the Whig Party".

Date Made:1836

Maker:Clay, Edward WilliamsRobinson, Henry R.

Place Made:United States: New York, New York City

Subject:Chronology: 1830-1839BlacksRevivals

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Credit Line:Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection

Data Source:National Museum of American History

Id Number:DL.60.2918Catalog Number:60.2918Accession Number:228146

Object Name:lithographObject Type:Lithograph

Measurements:image: 10 in x 18 in; 25.4 cm x 45.72 cm

Metadata Usage:CC0

Guid:https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-c2ad-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id:nmah_326094