Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1700-1722 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:musical instrument landscape
Dimensions:Diameter: 34.20 centimetres Height: 58 millimetres
Description:
Blue-and-white serving plate depicting European musicians. The plate is painted in underglaze blue with three European musicians around a table in a garden setting. A woman dressed in a low-cut dress with high piled-up hair and a headdress with ribbons of lace is seated and strikes the strings of a dulcimer. Two men in long curly wigs, frock coats and knee breeches, accompany her on a flute and a lute. This scene is surrounded by eight petal-shaped panels containing Chinese landscape scenes.
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![图片[2]-dish BM-1963-0422.18-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00100860_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall and Krahl 1994:This scene was copied from an engraving by Nicolas Bonnart (1646-1718) of Paris and drawn by his brother Robert, entitled ‘Symphonie du Tympanum, du Luth et de la Flute d’Allemagne’ (Howard and Ayers, 1978, vol. I , pl.35a). The print was also inscribed with verses comparing the inferior pleasures of Music to those of Love (Hervouet and Bruneau, 1986, p. 189). Other dishes with this scene exist, several vary in details such as the landscape scenes in the petal cartouches and some are closer to the original print than the present piece; compare examples in the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands (Leeuwarden, 1986, no.100); in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Godden, 1979, no.21); in the Manchester Art Gallery, Great Britain (Hobson, 1925, pl. XXIX, fig.3); and in the Mottahedeh collection (Howard and Ayers, 1978, vol.I, pl.35). This ‘music party’ print is one of a number of late 17th-century costume prints and other Chinese porcelain designs exist of ladies with similar elaborate hair-styles, fashionable in France and named the “coiffure, a la Duchesse de Fontanges” after the mistress of Louis XIV (1661-1715), who established its popularity. This print also inspired the decoration of Dutch Delft faience pieces such as an early 18th-century violin at the Musee de Rouen, France (Beurdeley, 1962, fig. 11).
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:musical instrument landscape
Dimensions:Diameter: 34.20 centimetres Height: 58 millimetres
Description:
Blue-and-white serving plate depicting European musicians. The plate is painted in underglaze blue with three European musicians around a table in a garden setting. A woman dressed in a low-cut dress with high piled-up hair and a headdress with ribbons of lace is seated and strikes the strings of a dulcimer. Two men in long curly wigs, frock coats and knee breeches, accompany her on a flute and a lute. This scene is surrounded by eight petal-shaped panels containing Chinese landscape scenes.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall and Krahl 1994:This scene was copied from an engraving by Nicolas Bonnart (1646-1718) of Paris and drawn by his brother Robert, entitled ‘Symphonie du Tympanum, du Luth et de la Flute d’Allemagne’ (Howard and Ayers, 1978, vol. I , pl.35a). The print was also inscribed with verses comparing the inferior pleasures of Music to those of Love (Hervouet and Bruneau, 1986, p. 189). Other dishes with this scene exist, several vary in details such as the landscape scenes in the petal cartouches and some are closer to the original print than the present piece; compare examples in the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands (Leeuwarden, 1986, no.100); in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Godden, 1979, no.21); in the Manchester Art Gallery, Great Britain (Hobson, 1925, pl. XXIX, fig.3); and in the Mottahedeh collection (Howard and Ayers, 1978, vol.I, pl.35). This ‘music party’ print is one of a number of late 17th-century costume prints and other Chinese porcelain designs exist of ladies with similar elaborate hair-styles, fashionable in France and named the “coiffure, a la Duchesse de Fontanges” after the mistress of Louis XIV (1661-1715), who established its popularity. This print also inspired the decoration of Dutch Delft faience pieces such as an early 18th-century violin at the Musee de Rouen, France (Beurdeley, 1962, fig. 11).
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