Description:
Chinese export porcelain teacup (saucer - HD SR.47) decorated en grisaille (or encre de chine or ink color) and gilding with a man wearing a hat next to a girl seated on a scrolling tree stump and a young boy with this right arm outstretched standing behind them. Hervouet and Bruneau note that this scene is similar to others done in the style of Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater (1695-1736), a French painter and draughtsman from Valenciennes whose role model and predominent inspiration in painting festive scenes was Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), also a native of Valenciennes. Pater was first taught in Valenciennes by Jean-Baptiste Guidé (master 1697; d 1711) and his father, Antoine Pater (1670–1747), a sculptor whose portrait was painted by Watteau. After Watteau's short stay in Valenciennes around 1710, Jean Baptiste followed him to Paris where he was briefly Watteau's pupil. Hervouet and Bruneau show two plates with a couple sitting on a tree trunk facing forward in the foreground and two others on the ground in the background, which are based on Pater's "Amours et Badinages." There is also a variation of this scene in Hyde and Silva's "Chinese Porcelain for the European Market," which they said was inspired by a print after Watteau. 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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