Dish with a vase of flowers
Unknown
1725–30 · Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze and gilded (Jingdezhen ware) · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
The extensive use of gilding and the dark blue and red enamels illustrate the Chinese adoption of the Japanese Imari style. This style became popular in Europe in the mid-seventeenth century, when warfare in China disrupted the kilns at Jingdezhen. Once work there resumed, Chinese potters incorporated the Imari style in their repertory in order to appeal to the lucrative European market.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1725–30
- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze and gilded (Jingdezhen ware)
- Culture
- Chinese, for the Continental European market
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- The Hans Syz Collection, Gift of Stephan B. Syz and John D. Syz, 1995
