Description:
Chinese export porcelain round saucer decorated a Meissen-style harbor scene in the Famille rose palette of blue, green, iron red, rose, black, brown, and gilding, surrounded by iron-red arabesques and traces of a gilt band around the rim. Hervouet and Bruneau illustrate several variations of these harbor scenes painted in the style of the German Meissen Factory porcelain of the 1730s and 1740s, which probably reached China through the Dutch East India Company and appear to have remained popular into the 1760s. The quality of painting can vary greatly; this example is hastily painted with a boatman approaching the shore with three men waiting, some bales already unloaded, western-style buildings, and Chinese characters in the background.
Subjects:
Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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