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. 

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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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

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