Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1740-1755 (circa)
Materials:porcelain, gold,
Technique:gilded, glazed, painted,
Subjects:chinoiserie landscape child
Dimensions:Diameter: 12.20 centimetres (saucer) Height: 6 centimetres (cup)
Description:
Chinese porcelain cup and saucer, painted in England. The coffee cup and saucer are painted with ‘chinoiserie’ landscape scenes in black enamel outlines and a green wash. The saucer shows two boys, one with a bird perched on his hand and the other seated on a wooden platform, with a wooden house and a landscape in the background. The decoration on the cup is similar but here one boy shades the other with an Oriental parasol in front of a wooden house built on a raised platform. The rim of the saucer and lip of the cup have traces of a gilt border.
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![图片[1]-coffee-cup; saucer BM-Franks.651-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00359120_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-coffee-cup; saucer BM-Franks.651-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00162828_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall and Krahl 1994:The cup and saucer were produced at Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province. They were decorated in the workshop of James Giles (1718-80), an English porcelain painter who managed a business in Kentish Town, London, from 1756 to 1763, and in Soho, London, from 1763 to 1776 (Coke, 1983, p.4). In his workshop both European and Chinese porcelains were decorated with original designs as well as with copies of prints and oil paintings. The scenes are an Englishman’s interpretation of Chinese figures in a Chinese landscape. Little accurate information about China was available during this period and images of China were a fanciful mixture of the architecture, flora and fauna of different distant countries. These particular scenes are very rare and do not occur on English porcelain (private communication of Dr. Bernard Watney). However, English and Chinese porcelains decorated by Giles with other monochrome green landscape scenes are well known (Coke, 1983, p. 150). Chinese porcelains decorated in this style include a tea cup and saucer with a factory scene, also in the British Museum ( BM Franks. 652); a saucer and a covered bowl both with an obelisk and ruins of a classical building in a landscape, one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the other in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, U.S.A. (Godden, 1979, no. 286; Hervouet and Bruneau, 1986, no. 16.133); and a teapot with a riverscape in a private collection (Coke, 1983, pl. 31 b).
Materials:porcelain, gold,
Technique:gilded, glazed, painted,
Subjects:chinoiserie landscape child
Dimensions:Diameter: 12.20 centimetres (saucer) Height: 6 centimetres (cup)
Description:
Chinese porcelain cup and saucer, painted in England. The coffee cup and saucer are painted with ‘chinoiserie’ landscape scenes in black enamel outlines and a green wash. The saucer shows two boys, one with a bird perched on his hand and the other seated on a wooden platform, with a wooden house and a landscape in the background. The decoration on the cup is similar but here one boy shades the other with an Oriental parasol in front of a wooden house built on a raised platform. The rim of the saucer and lip of the cup have traces of a gilt border.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall and Krahl 1994:The cup and saucer were produced at Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province. They were decorated in the workshop of James Giles (1718-80), an English porcelain painter who managed a business in Kentish Town, London, from 1756 to 1763, and in Soho, London, from 1763 to 1776 (Coke, 1983, p.4). In his workshop both European and Chinese porcelains were decorated with original designs as well as with copies of prints and oil paintings. The scenes are an Englishman’s interpretation of Chinese figures in a Chinese landscape. Little accurate information about China was available during this period and images of China were a fanciful mixture of the architecture, flora and fauna of different distant countries. These particular scenes are very rare and do not occur on English porcelain (private communication of Dr. Bernard Watney). However, English and Chinese porcelains decorated by Giles with other monochrome green landscape scenes are well known (Coke, 1983, p. 150). Chinese porcelains decorated in this style include a tea cup and saucer with a factory scene, also in the British Museum ( BM Franks. 652); a saucer and a covered bowl both with an obelisk and ruins of a classical building in a landscape, one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the other in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, U.S.A. (Godden, 1979, no. 286; Hervouet and Bruneau, 1986, no. 16.133); and a teapot with a riverscape in a private collection (Coke, 1983, pl. 31 b).
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