Description:
Chinese export porcelain plate decorated en grisaille (or encre de chine or ink color) and gilding with a scene of an older bearded man wearing a broad-banded hat and boats embracing a young girl under a tent canopy or baldaquin with a riverscape with buildings in the background. The upper curvature has a gilt spearhead border; and the rim has four alternating cartouches, two with landscapes and two with birds. Hervouet and Bruneau suggest that the figures' dress might be taken from a biblical scene; and J. G. Veiga in his "Chinese Export Porcelain in Private Brazilian Collections" (London, 1989, pl. 125) has suggested that the scene might have been taken from an engraving by Vinckeboom (David Vinkboons [1576-1632/]?). 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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