Description:
Chinese export porcelain round plate with decorated with a Meissen-style harbor scene in the Famille rose palette of pink, iron red, blue, yellow, brown, black, green, white, and gilding, and a bianco-sopra-bianco foliate pattern on the rim into the curvature. Derived from the decoration on c.1730-1740 Meissen porcelain that probably reached China through the Dutch East India Company, this plate is painted in the manner of the "Hausmaler" (home painter) style of Meissen. The European landscape shows a tall man wearing a rose coat, who is traditionally identified as Peter the Great (1672-1725), Czar of Russia. Peter came to Amsterdam in 1697, where he spent some time incognito studying shipbuilding in the small port of Zaandam on the river, Zaan. According to David Howard, there are at least four variants of this theme known on porcelain decoration with a crowned workman among the clutter of riverside wharves, which were taken from a still unidentified print. This scene, which is surrounded by a iron-red and gilt scrolling rococo border, includes men unloading barrels from a barge, sponged yellow and green trees; and a tall round building with a spire, taller building with a flying banner, and a row of tall ship sails on the opposite bank. The rim has long oval, shaped cartouches outlined with gilding with Europeans fishing or walking, alternating with diamond-shaped and scalloped lozenges outlined with gilding with Chinese landscapes and fishermen.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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