Description:
Chinese export porcelain hexagonal or six-sided teapot stand decorated en grisaille (or encre de chine or ink color in black and gilding with the draped figure of Jupiter, based on an engraving by the French painter, sculptor, and engraver, Claude Audran III (1658-1734) who taught the rococo artist Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). Audran was best known for his tapestry and ornamental panel designs, many of which featured mythological gods and goddesses. Hervouet and Bruneau note that this scene with Jupiter was taken from an Audran engraving titled, "Juillet" (July), one of the twelve months of the year symbolized by the gods and goddeses of Olympia; they also show Chinese export porcelain examples based on Audran's engravings of Juno symbolizing January, Venus for April, Mercury for June, Ceres for August, and Diana for November. According to Litzenburg, these engravings were part of Audran's "Les Mois Grotesques", designs for tapestry panels done in 1708-1709 and woven at the Gobelins manufactory from 1709 to 1726 for the rooms of the Grand Dauphin at the Château de Meudon. Chinese enamelers developed ink-color decoration as a method of reproducing print images on porcelain for the western market. Dominated by black enamels and washes, ink-color decoration was first produced in the 1730s and remained popular throughout the 18th century. Often period documents refer to this decoration as "pencil'd," reflecting its use of fine brush strokes and black color. The lobed-hexagonal shape of this teapot stand, also popular for spoon trays, was indigenous to China.
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