HUGIJENOT ARTISTS DESIGNERS AND CRAYPSNEN IN GREAT ...

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T}IE HETGUENOT CONTRIBtTTION TO PORCELAIN
Daniel Marot is the earliest of 'the Huguenot ':enchmen or
Flemings who played such a large part in the early history of English
Porcelain' and although Daniel Marot's designsfor porcelain were
not executed in this country, the fact that his architectural designs
and furniture designs were executed, created a demand for the porcelain
which was being produced to Marot's designs at Delft. Thus the surviving
examples of this Deift are to be found in houses built or rebuilt
after the Glorious Revolution in 1688, such as Hampton Court, Chatsworth,
Dyrham, and Uppark.2
The most renowned collection of such porcelain was to be seen
in the Queen's Water Gallery at Hampton Court, an old tudor building
converted for the Queen's use. It is probable that the bill due to
'Adrianus Koex of Deift for Durch China or Ware sent to her late Majty
the sume of Thirteen Hundred and Fifty Gilders 3 Styvers' (122 4-s 9d)
was for this building. The Gallery had been destroyed by 1700, but the
decorative scheme consisted of wall tiles, over a dozen of which survive;and
tableware, of which a large blue and gold cream bowl is now in the
Victoria and Albert Museum. It is probable that Koex also supplied
ornamental objects for the Palace itself, such as the tall tulip vases
which can still be seen today at Dyrham and Chatsworth. One particularly
majestic urn survives at Erddig; it is decorated with the Royal Arms
on one side, and the monogram RWMR on the other. Tiles also survive
at Het Lao, William's country seat in Holland, originally forming part
of the decoration of the 'candied fruit cellar' which was begun in 1686.
It is not surprising that William Blathwayt, who acted as
Secretary of State to William III from 1692 to 1701, and accompanied
the King on his campaigns to the Low Countries against the French,
and the kth Earl of Devonshire, who also accompanied King William abroad,
should have acquired the same taste. There are still more than forty
pieces of Deift earthenware at Dyrham, of which more than half are
marked A.K., and the pieces include, basins,baskets, dishes,vases,
bottles, bowls and steetmeat trays, as well as the more lavish
pyraxnidical flower vases and urns. Even the latter performed a
utiliterian as well as a decorative function. Each of the bulbous openings
is in fact a self-contained compartment designed to hold water for the
benefit of the Vower it supports. The urns contained decorative trees
and were pozitioned in the fireplaces during the summer months, as is