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Culture:Chinese
Title:stand
Date Made:ca. 1750
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: hard paste porcelain, overglaze black enamel, gilding
Place Made:China
Accession Number:  HD SR.49
Credit Line:Gift of Helen Lansdowne Resor (Mrs. Gabriel Hage)
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Chinese export porcelain fluted hexagonal or six-sided teapot stand with a fluted rim decorated en grisaille (or encre de chine or ink color) and gilding with a landscape scene of Minerva with her helmet, spear and shield protecting the sleeping Telemachus from the approaching chariot drawn by two doves coming out of the clouds. In the chariot, a scantily-clad Venus urges Cupid to shoot his arrow at Telemachus whose cloak is open to his waist; another version shows him fully clothed (HD SR.30). This is scene based on "Les aventures de Telemaque" (1699) by Francois de Fenelon, the source for most postclassical treatments of the son of Ulysses. This episode in which Telemachus describes seeing Venus "cleaving the clouds, drawn by two turtle doves" was also a popular subject for operas, tapestries, paintings, and engravings. There is also another version with the same figures of Venus and Cupid above two seated lovers in 18th century costume, which was sold at Sotheby's in 1970. 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.

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