Description:
Chinese export porcelain five-piece garniture with two beakers or trumpet-shaped vases and three baluster-shaped vases with covers, decorated in the Famille rose palette in pink, red, blue, green, purple, turquoise, and yellow. Garnitures (sets of vases and beakers) originally served as Buddhist altar ornaments in China. These decorative ceramics were seen by European merchants who subsequently exported each type of vase and beaker in large quantities; local china merchants then matched the number in the garniture to the orders they received. Sets of covered vases and flared beakers were normally in groups of three, five, or seven pieces, and were often displayed in an alternating pattern on the tops of cupboards, bookcases, and mantelpieces in 17th and 18th century interiors. Popularized by the Dutch designer Daniel Marot (1661-1752) and avidly collected in Holland, these ceramics appeared in furnishing schemes of English rooms; and the Dutch settlers in New York continued the tradition of using ceramics as decorative ornaments in America. This brilliant bubble-gum enamel appears to have been used only in the first two decades after the development of the famille rose palette in 1730. The Chinese-style design includes a cockerel, peonies, prunus blossoms, bands of pink diaperwork around the shoulder, cover and base interupted by blossoms, and a scholar's rock, often called "guai shi" or grotesque stone, which were naturally-eroded rocks that were prized and protected as natural treasures of the scholar.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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